Julian Amyes

Julian Charles Becket Amyes (9 August 1917 – 26 April 1992), known as Julian Amyes, was a British film and television director and producer.^[1][2]

Although primarily director and producer, Amyes also had acting roles in High Treason (1951) and Mandy (1952).^[3][4]

Amyes made his directorial début with a BBC Sunday Night Theatre version of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor in 1952 and also directed a number of other productions for BBC before joining Granada Television in the early 1960s, where he was head of drama from 1963 until 1977.^[5]

Film credits (as director) include A Hill in Korea (1956), and the Emeric Pressburger-written Miracle in Soho (1957).^[3]

After 1977, he returned to directing predominantly in television directing (amongst other works) adaptations of The Old Curiosity Shop (1979), Great Expectations (1981) and Jane Eyre (1983) for the BBC.^[1] Amyes also worked on a number of independent productions, before acting as director on episodes of The Bill (1990) and Rumpole of the Bailey (1989–91) for Thames Television.^[6][7]

He was married to the actress/writer Anne Allan. They had two children; Sebastian a Professor at the University of Edinburgh and Isabelle, an Actress. Julian Amyes died of a stroke in 1992.