- Jeremy Silberston
Jeremy Silberston (
1 April 1950 –9 March 2006 ), was an English film director.He was the son of economist Professor Aubrey Silberston, and his mother, Dorothy, was a founder member of the
National Schizophrenia Fellowship ; and attended ThePerse School , Cambridge.After college, he traveled to France working on the Disney on Parade ice show. Returning to England he began to work in television production. After training at the BBC as a Production Director in the late 1970s (he was recruited for his ability to speak French) he worked in a range of TV popular drama programmes such as Casualty and
The Bill . He became a good friend of writerAnthony Horowitz and they jointly developedMidsomer Murders (1997) andFoyle's War (2002).During the 1980s he was Production Manager of
Smiley's People (mini TV Series) (1982),Doctor Who "The Five Doctors" (1983),My Cousin Rachel (mini TV Series) (1983),Bleak House (mini TV Series) (1985), 2 episodes ofEastEnders (1986) and 2 episodes of Casualty (1988-1989). He directed episodes of a wide range of TV popular drama includingBrookside (1982), 2 episodes of Casualty: "Accidents Happen" (1989) and "Absolution" (1988); episodes of Coasting (1990);The House of Eliott ("episodes 3, 4, 11 & 12 of series 1; 7 & 8 of series 2 and 9 & 10 of series 3") (1991-93); episodes of Castles (1995); 12 episodes of The Bill: "Return to Sender" (1993), "A Tangled Web" (1997); "Vacant Possession" (1998), "High Places", "True Confessions", "Saved", "By the Book", "The Scent of Compassion", "Just For The Crack", "Time to Kill", "On the Wagon", "True Lies", and "Better the Devil"; 10 episodes ofMidsomer Murders : "The Killings at Badger's Drift" (1997), "Written in Blood" (1998), "Death of a Hollow Man" (1998), "Death's Shadow" (1999), "Strangler's Wood" (1999), "Dead Man's Eleven" (1999), "Judgement Day" (2000), "Dark Autumn" (2001), "Birds of Prey" (2003); 8 episodes ofFoyle's War (2002-2006): "The German Woman", "The White Feather", "Eagle Day," "Among the Few", "The Funk Hole", "They Fought In The Fields", "Enemy Fire" and "Bad Blood"; and alsoThe Inspector Lynley Mysteries : "The Seed of Cunning" (2005).He was married to Catherine Napier, a correspondent for the
BBC World Service . He had two sons, Theo and Toby. He died of cancer after seven months of illness.External links
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* [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/290266?view=credit Filmography] at the BFI
*http://www.tv.com/jeremy-silberston/person/83334/summary.html
*http://www.bafta.org/site/Jahia/cache/offonce/pid/309
* [http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Obituaries;action=display;num=1144259206 Tribute] , "Ariel", 5 April 2006.
* [http://www.oldperseans.org/uploads/OP_obits_Smr07.pdf Tribute] , "Old Perseans", 2007.
* [http://www.foyleswar.com/people/crew/silberston.htm Silberston on directing Foyles War] , Series 1 press kit
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