Christopher Hall (producer)

Christopher Hall (born 1957 in London) is a British TV drama producer also known as Chris Hall.

He is the son of Sir Peter Hall (director) and Leslie Caron and was educated at Bedales School and St Catharines College, Cambridge. He has produced dramas for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 networks and worked both in-house and as a freelancer for major British production companies including Kudos. He started his career as an assistant director on feature films with David Hare (Strapless), (Paris by Night), Ken Russell (The Lair of the White Worm) and as a floor manager and/or assistant director on TV shows such as Inspector Morse. Working his way up, he became a Line Producer and then a fully fledged Producer. In 1996 he produced The Final Passage, directed by his father Sir Peter Hall, which won BAFTA and RTS awards for Cinematography.

Hall's best known productions include The Lost World starring Peter Falk, Bob Hoskins, James Fox and Matthew Rhys in 2001. The production was noted for stripping the Conan Doyle text of racial overtones.^[1] He also produced Archangel in 2005 starring Daniel Craig, which was adapted from a Robert Harris thriller by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and filmed on location in Moscow and Latvia. In 2011 for Hat Trick for ITV Hall produced "Case Sensitive" starring Olivia Williams Guardian Review. Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) was another of Halls' productions, which starred Richard E. Grant, John Nettles, Ian Hart, Richard Roxburgh and Geraldine James and received a BAFTA nomination for best sound.^[2] Aristocrats, based on the Stella Tillyard biography of the Lennox sisters in 1999 was another major production. One of Hall's drama productions, made as a Christmas show for the BBC in 2003, was the BAFTA-winning The Young Visiters starring Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Sally Hawkins and Simon Russell Beale. It was narrated by Alan Bennett, and directed by David Yates.^[3] The score, by Nicholas Hooper, won the BAFTA award for Original Television Music.^[4]

Christopher Hall is particularly known^{[citation needed]} for attention to detail in post-production and for special effects, and won an Emmy award^[5] for producing the animated natural history drama, Pride, which featured sophisticated special effects. As producer, he was responsible for hiring an outstanding cast to voice the lions, including Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, John Hurt, Robbie Coltrane, Jim Broadbent, Sean Bean, Martin Freeman, Rupert Graves, and Kwame Kwei-Armah. He was hired specifically as post-production producer by Power (Powercorp) in 2011, on a drama called Ice.

In 2011 he Produced Hidden, a four part drama written by Ronan Bennett starring Philip Glenister. He is currently engaged on Labyrinth for Scottfree.

Christopher Hall is the half brother of film actress Rebecca Hall and of Edward Hall the artistic director of Hampstead Theatre.

Productions

• Hidden 2011 BBC Article
• Case Sensitive 2011 Guardian Article
• Ice 2011
• The Fixer 2008
• Burn Up 2008
• The Commander (4) 2006/ 2007
• Trial & Retribution (6) 2005/2007
• Archangel (Robert Harris novel) 2005
• Pride 2004
• The Young Visiters 2003
• The Hound of the Baskervilles 2002
• The Lost World 2001
• Other People's Children 2000
• Blue Murder 2000
• Aristocrats 1999
• The Final Passage 1996

AS ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

• Poirot 1996
• The Fragile Heart 1996 BAFTA award for Best Actor, Nigel Hawthorne
• Bugs 1995
• Anna Lee 1994
• London's Burning 1990-1994

References

1. ^ Poole, Oliver (12 November 2000). "BBC will strip Conan Doyle of racial overtones". Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1374084/BBC-will-strip-Conan-Doyle-of-racial-overtones.html. Retrieved 10 July 2011. 
2. ^ "Craft Nominations 2002". BAFTA. http://www.bafta.org/awards/television-craft/nominations/?year=2002. Retrieved 10 July 2011. 
3. ^ Lowry, Brian (31 October 2004). "The Young Visiters". Variety. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117925407?refCatId=32. Retrieved 10 July 2011. 
4. ^ "Craft Nominations 2003". BAFTA. http://www.bafta.org/awards/television-craft/nominations/?year=2003. Retrieved 10 July 2011. 
5. ^ "Outstanding Children's Program - 2005". Emmys. http://www.emmys.com/shows/pride. Retrieved 10 July 2011. 

External links

• Christopher Hall (producer) at the Internet Movie Database
• Lost World
• Powercorp Webpage on "Archangel"

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Name	Hall, Christopher John
Alternative names	Hall, Chris
Short description	British TV drama producer
Date of birth	1957
Place of birth	London, England
Date of death
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