Humphrey Burton

Biography

Author, broadcaster, director and producer. First Head of Music and Arts for BBC Television 1965-1967. Resumed the position again from 1975-1981 after an eight year absence in commercial television as a founder-member of London Weekend Television. For his work as a director, he has won four Emmy Awards, two British Academy Awards and as a presenter received the Royal Television Society Silver medal and Sony Gold Award.

Directed

1. Lulu (1996) — Director
2. Die Fledermaus (1984) — Director
3. Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1987) — Director
4. Andrea Chénier (1985) — Director
5. Boris Godunov (1990) — Director
6. The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis (1976) — Director
7. The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein (1985) — Director
8. Ermione (1995) — Director
9. The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland (2002) — Director
10. The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology (1976) — Director
11. Candide (1991) — Director
12. Falstaff (2000) — Director
13. Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 3,4,5 (2008) — Director
14. Pelléas and Mélisande — Director
15. Vincent in Brixton (2003) — Director
16. Eugene Onegin (1994) — Director
17. Rodelinda (1998) — Director
18. Merry Christmas from Vienna (1996) — Director
19. Manon Lescaut (1997) — Director
20. Candide (1988) — Director
21. War and Peace (1991) — Director
22. The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth (1976) — Director
23. The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax (1976) — Director
24. The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics (1976) — Director
25. The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity (1976) — Director
26. Rostropovich Life & Art (2007) — Director
27. Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 (1976) — Director
28. Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal (1976) — Director
29. Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (1973) — Director
30. Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 / Das Lied von der Erde (2005) — Director
31. Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987 (1987) — Director
32. The Golden Ring (1965) — Director
33. Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony (1970) — Director
34. Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein (1970) — Director
35. Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2 (1977) — Director
36. Prince Igor (1990) — Director
37. Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein) (2009) — Director
38. Bernstein/Beethoven (1982) — Director
39. Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction (1972) — Director
40. Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives (1976) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (2009) — Self (archival footage)
2. Omnibus (1967) — Self - Presenter
3. The Opera House (2017) — Self - BBC Arts Reporter
4. Glenn Gould: Hereafter (2006) — Self
5. The Golden Ring (1965) — Himself - Narrator
6. Marevna and Marika (1978) — Himself
7. Elton John: Mr. Superfunk (1971) — Self
8. BBC Young Musician (1978) — Self - Host
9. Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976) — Self - Host
10. Gordon Jacob (1959) — Commentator
11. Karajan's Magic and Myth (2014) — Self
12. La Stupenda (1991) — Self
13. Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen (2008) — Self
14. The Story of Pantomime (1976) — Self
15. New York, New York - Saturday in SoHo/Watching My Name Go By (1976) — Presenter
16. How the BBC Began (2022) — Self
17. Conversations with Glenn Gould (1966) — Interviewer