David Wheatley (director)

For the Irish poet, see David Wheatley (poet).
David Wheatley
Born (1949-12-20)December 20, 1949
Sunderland
Died April 5, 2009(2009-04-05)
Occupation Film and television director

David Wheatley (20 December 1949 – 5 April 2009) was a British film and television director.[1]

His Royal College of Art graduation film was on the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte, after his tutor Gavin Millar showed him a book on the artist. The film was screened as part of the BBC's arts' programmes Omnibus in 1979. From that year, he contributed films to the Omnibus and Arena series,[2] before branching out into other areas in the mid 1980s.

He directed The Magic Toyshop (1987), a fantasy film based on the Angela Carter novel, which Carter adapted herself, and several social dramas set in the north of England. In the early 1990s he directed a series of Catherine Cookson adaptations for Tyne Tees which gained audiences of 14 million.[3]

He also directed episodes of Fat Friends and Dalziel and Pascoe.[4]

He died after a long illness on 5 April 2009, aged 59.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/apr/13/obituary-david-wheatley
  2. ↑ Leslie Megahey "Obituary: David Wheatley", The Guardian, 13 April 2009
  3. ↑ Lasting Tribute website.
  4. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923675/

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