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Bill Hays

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British television director

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Bill Hays was a British television director who is best remembered for the award-winning Orde Wingate and Rock Follies, a BBC adaptation of the Ivan Turgenev play A Month in the Country (1985), The Tale of Beatrix Potter (1982), a biographical drama with Penelope Wilton in the lead, and the television version of the...

Filmography 22

Lady Killer1973
Quartermaine's Terms1987
Time After Time1986
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them1974
Death Is Part of the Process1986
A Month in the Country1985
Practical Experience1976
Bird Fancier1985
Waving to a Train1984
The Gingham Dog1970
Orde Wingate1976
Out of Step1982
The Tale of Beatrix Potter1983
Long Live the Babe1984
Jumbo1976
Shades1982
Random Moments in a May Garden1981
Flights1985
Codename: Portcullis1969
Just in Time for Christmas1972
A Turn for the Worse1981
Trouble in Tahiti1973

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Television 24

EastEnders1985
Play for Today1970
Rumpole of the Bailey1975
BBC Play of the Month1965
Screen Two1985
The Bill1984
Z-Cars1962
Theatre 6251964
Lovejoy1986
Playhouse1974
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries1987
The Wednesday Play1964
Thriller1973
Boon1986
Dr. Finlay's Casebook1962
Softly, Softly1966
Fall of Eagles1974
Warship1973
Wish Me Luck1988
When the Boat Comes In1976
Rock Follies1976
Centre Play1973
Detective1964
Tales of Mystery and Imagination1995

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Bill Hays was a British television director who is best remembered for the award-winning Orde Wingate and Rock Follies, a BBC adaptation of the Ivan Turgenev play A Month in the Country (1985), The Tale of Beatrix Potter (1982), a biographical drama with Penelope Wilton in the lead, and the television version of the Alex Glasgow/Alan Plater musical play Close the Coalhouse Door (1969), a late entry in The Wednesday Play series now lost.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1938 to 2006 · aged 67
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