Paddy Russell

Biography

Patricia "Paddy" Russell (4 July‌ 1928 – 2 November 2017) was a British television director. She was among the earliest female directors at the BBC. She was the first female floor manager to work for the BBC, her non-gendered credit being a means of avoiding problems with prospective technical crews. Although she appeared in the first two episodes of The Quatermass Experiment (1953), her main role was a production assistant for television director Rudolph Cartier. She worked on the later Quatermass science-fiction serials, as well as the 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the Studio 4 series, she appeared on screen in the Cartier-directed Holocaust drama Doctor Korczak and the Children (1962), instructing the actors on the roles they were to perform. The production was made in the unadorned studio without sets or the actors in costume. She progressed to becoming a director herself, one of the first two women directors in BBC television, along with Julia Smith. She directed many television programmes from 1962. She became the first woman to direct episodes of Doctor Who when she directed The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (1966). She directed three…

Directed

1. Doctor Who (1963) — Director
2. Emmerdale (1972) — Director
3. Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars (1975) — Director
4. Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock (1977) — Director
5. The Omega Factor (1979) — Director
6. Out of the Unknown (1965) — Director
7. Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) — Director
8. Z-Cars (1962) — Director
9. Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974) — Director
10. Crown Court (1972) — Director
11. Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (1966) — Director
12. The Corpse Can't Play (1968) — Director
13. Within These Walls (1974) — Director
14. My Old Man (1974) — Director
15. The Man Outside (1972) — Director
16. Compact (1962) — Director
17. The Moonstone (1972) — Director
18. Softly, Softly (1966) — Director
19. Little Women (1970) — Director
20. The Moonstone (1972) — Director
21. The Newcomers (1965) — Director
22. Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......? (1965) — Director
23. Quick Before They Catch Us (1966) — Director
24. Late Night Horror (1968) — Director
25. Story Parade (1964) — Director
26. The Squad (1980) — Director
27. Hit and Run (1965) — Director
28. Reluctant Bandit (1965) — Director
29. The Doctors (1969) — Director
30. The Standard (1978) — Director
31. 3-2-1 (1978) — Director
32. Treasure Island (1965) — Director
33. The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft (1965) — Director
34. No Such Thing as a Vampire (1968) — Director
35. First Night (1963) — Director
36. The Massingham Affair (1964) — Director
37. The Mind of the Enemy (1965) — Director
38. Heiress of Garth (1965) — Director
39. Angel Pavement (1967) — Director
40. Pere Goriot (1971) — Director