- Paddy Russell
Paddy Russell is a British
television director .She directed several television programmes between 1962 and 1981 and her work includes "
Out of the Unknown " (1965), "Late Night Horror " (1968), "Pere Goriot " (1968), "Little Women " (1970), "The Moonstone " (1972) and "The Omega Factor " (1980).Before becoming a director herself, during the 1950s she been a
production assistant for BBC television, working on many productions with famed directorRudolph Cartier . She worked on the "Quatermass" science-fiction serials, as well as the famous 1954 adaptation ofGeorge Orwell 's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four".She was the director on four "
Doctor Who " serials: "The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve " (1966), "Invasion of the Dinosaurs " (1974), "Pyramids of Mars " (1975) and "Horror of Fang Rock " (1977). She was the first female director to work on the programme, in an era when television production crews were dominated by men.External links
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References
*"Doctor Who", "Horror Fang Rock", BBC Video, 2005. "Paddy Russell: A Life in Television".
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