June wyndham davies biography of michaels
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TV-show
1.) The Hound of the Baskervilles, UK , produced by June Wyndham-Davies, Michael Cox (executive) for Granada Television/ITV, directed by Brian Mills
2.) Shades of Darkness - Afterward, UK , produced bygd June Wyndham-Davies, Michael Cox (executive) for Granada Television, directed bygd Simon Langton
3.) Shades of Darkness - Bewitched, UK , produced by June Wyndham-Davies, Michael Cox (executive) for Granada Television, directed by John Gorrie
4.) Shades of Darkness - Feet Foremost, UK , produced by June Wyndham-Davies, Michael Cox (executive) for Granada Television, directed by Gordon Flemyng
5.) Shades of Darkness - The Demon Lover, UK , produced by June Wyndham-Davies, Michael Cox (executive) for Granada Television, directed by Peter Hammond
6.) Shades of Darkness - The Intercessor, UK , produced by June Wyndham-Davies, Michael Cox (executive) for Granada Television, directed by Peter Smith
7.) Shades of Darkness
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Michael Cox
Michael Cox (28 november - 29 january ) was a British director and producer.
Between and he produced the Granada TV series Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes.
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Biography
A man of experience
Born in , Michael Cox acquired a considerable amount of experience during his professional life devoted to television. Beginning as an actor, then stage manager, advertising agent and working in an artistic agency, he entered Granada Television in and rose through all the ranks, starting from bus driver or handymen. Responsible for local programs or broadcasts of archival material, such as "All Our Yesterdays", he made his first step in the teaterpjäs field by collaborating as assistant director in the famous series "Coronation Street". Then, having been entrusted by the producer Denis Mitchell the realization of a documentary, he admitted, not without humour, that he had failed miserably and considered himself very happy that his
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Memories of British television director & producer June Wyndham Davies
A producer is responsible for finding new and interesting material and then acquiring the rights to have the work turned into a screenplay suitable for the great viewing public.
I wanted to bring Elizabeth Bowen and Edith Wharton to the viewing public. Wharton, an American writer never seen on the British screen until I acquired three of her ghost stories, The Lady’s Maids Bell, which was her first, and then Afterward and Bewitched. All three were subtly terrifying! She had apparently not read a ghost story until she was 29 years old, she was much too frightened! Those three stories were part of an anthology of ghost stories I produced called Shades of Darkness.
Following the success of Shades, Peter Eckersley at Granada TV gave me free rein and I acquired the rights in two of Bowen&#;s novels Death of The Heart and The Heat of the Day. The first to go into production was Death of the Heart. Thankfull