Robert Young

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert William Young (born 16 March 1933) is a British television and film director. Young was born in Cheltenham, and in the 1980s and early 1990s, established himself as a leading director of British TV drama. In the 1970s, he directed Vampire Circus (1972) and Hammer House of Horror. He directed several episodes of Minder and Bergerac in the early 1980s, and the acclaimed TV serial The Mad Death which centred around a rabies outbreak. Perhaps his best remembered television work was on Robin of Sherwood, for which he directed many of the best-regarded episodes. Young moved towards black comedy in the early 1990s, directing Jeeves and Wooster based on the stories written by P.G. Wodehouse, and GBH, for which he was nominated for a BATA award. It was partly on the strength of GBH that he was assigned to direct Fierce Creatures, John Cleese's 1997 follow-up to A Fish Called Wanda, which featured many of the same cast as GBH. However, the production ran into problems and Fred Schepisi was brought in to finalise the movie. Young did, however, direct Splitting Heirs, which starred Cleese and Eric Idle. Young has continued to work on television…

Directed

1. Fierce Creatures (1997) — Director
2. Blood Monkey (2007) — Director
3. Vampire Circus (1972) — Director
4. Jeeves and Wooster (1990) — Director
5. Eichmann (2007) — Director
6. Robin of Sherwood (1984) — Director
7. Splitting Heirs (1993) — Director
8. Hammer House of Horror (1980) — Director
9. Jane Eyre (1997) — Director
10. The Worst Witch (1986) — Director
11. Minder (1979) — Director
12. Bergerac (1981) — Director
13. Doomsday Gun (1994) — Director
14. G.B.H. (1991) — Director
15. The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades (2000) — Director
16. Romance with a Double Bass (1974) — Director
17. Keep It Up Downstairs (1976) — Director
18. Hostage (1992) — Director
19. The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells (2001) — Director
20. All at Sea (2012) — Director
21. Bye, Bye Harry (2006) — Director
22. The World Is Full of Married Men (1979) — Director
23. Screen One (1989) — Director
24. Captain Jack (1999) — Director
25. The Wimbledon Poisoner (1994) — Director
26. Blore M.P. (1989) — Director
27. Curse of the Phoenix (2014) — Director
28. Alive and Kicking (1991) — Director
29. White Goods (1994) — Director
30. The Mad Death (1983) — Director
31. Soldier's Home (1977) — Director
32. Three Wishes for Jamie (1987) — Director
33. Camino de Santiago (1999) — Director
34. 20 Times More Likely (1978) — Director
35. Sunday Premiere (1986) — Director
36. One Way Out (1989) — Director
37. Harry's Kingdom (1987) — Director