Peter Graham Scott

For other people named Peter Scott, see Peter Scott (disambiguation).

Peter Graham Scott (27 October 1923 – 5 August 2007) was an English film producer, film director, film editor and screenwriter. One of the producers and directors who shaped British television drama in its formative years, Scott brought a background in film editing and directing to his work that helped to move the small screen out of an era of lifeless, studio-bound productions and towards programmes that owed more to cinema than to the stage.

Biography

Scott was born in East Sheen, Surrey, but was brought up in Isleworth, Middlesex, where he attended acting classes at the Italia Conti Academy.

In 1950, he married Mimi Martell, and they had two sons (deceased) and two daughters.

In 1984, Scott won the Royal Television Society's Sir Ambrose Fleming Award for Outstanding Contribution to Television. In 1999, he published his memoirs, British Television: An Insider's History.

Scott died in Windlesham, Surrey, on 5 August 2007.

Filmography

Acted

• Young and Innocent (1937)
• Pastor Hall (1940)

Edited

• Brighton Rock (1947)
• The Perfect Woman (1949)
• Radio Cab Murder (1954)
• River Beat (1954)
• The Avengers (TV series)
• The Troubleshooters

Directed

• Room for Two (1940) (assistant director)
• Major Barbara (assistant director)
• Kipps (1941) (assistant director)
• Panic (1948)
• Escape Route (1952)
• Our Marie (1953)
• Account Rendered (1957)
• Breakout (1959)
• Devil's Bait (1959)
• Bitter Harvest (1963)
• Danger Man (7 episodes, 1960–63)
• Mister Ten Per Cent (1967)
• The Prisoner (1 episode, 1967)
• Subterfuge (1968)
• Children of the Stones (7 episodes, 1977 - also produced)
• Into The Labyrinth (21 episodes, 1981–82, also produced and co-created)

Produced

• Tales of Mystery (1961–63)
• Father Came Too! (1963)
• The Cracksman (1963)
• Captain Clegg
• The Borderers (1968)
• The Onedin Line (1971–80)
• The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (1980)
• Quiller (1975)
• Kidnapped (1978)
• Into the Labyrinth (1981–82)
• The Master of Ballantrae (1984)
• Arch of Triumph
• Jenny's War (1985)
• Jamaica Inn (1985)
• The Canterville Ghost

References

• "Peter Graham Scott"The Independent on Sunday, 2007-08-21. Accessed 2007-10-20
• Peter Graham Scott at the Internet Movie Database