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Martin Dennis

Director, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn December 1, 1965 (59 years)
Martin Dennis is a Canadian-born award-winning British television director specialising in situation comedy. He won the BAFTA for situation comedy in 2005, having been nominated in 1989, 1996, and 1998. Dennis was born in Toronto and lived there briefly until his family moved to Surrey. He graduated from the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham alongside his fellow and now well-known award-winning contemporaries - stage and screen directors Phyllida Lloyd and Andy Wilson, producer Sarah Curtis, actor and director Owen Brenman and stage and screen designer Mark Thompson. Stage and screen writer-directors Victoria Wood and Terry Johnson had graduated from the Department in preceding years.

Dennis joined the BBC in 1980 as a runner. He soon became a production manager and was part of the crew behind 'Allo, 'Allo, Don't Wait Up, and Hi-De-Hi. In 1980, Dennis became the director of 'Allo, 'Allo and in 1991 he directed the first series of Men Behaving Badly for Hartswood Films, and went on to direct all the subsequent series and specials. He has also directed Birds of a Feather when it was revived by ITV in 2014.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Black Books
  • Men Behaving Badly
  • The Goes Wrong Show

Known For

  • Black Books
  • Coupling
  • Friday Night Dinner
  • 'Allo 'Allo!
  • The Vicar of Dibley
  • Men Behaving Badly
  • The Goes Wrong Show
  • How Not To Live Your Life
  • Goodnight Sweetheart
  • The Job Lot
  • Birds Of A Feather

Filmography

2019
2017
Bad Move (TV Series)
2015
Brotherhood (2015) (TV Series)
2013
The Job Lot (TV Series)
2011
2010
Me And My Monsters (TV Series)
2009
Monday Monday (TV Series)
2009
Life of Riley (TV Series)
2008
Never Better (TV Series)
2007
Comedy Showcase (TV Series)
2007
2007
2007
City Lights (TV Series)
2006
2005
2004
Carrie & Barry (TV Series)
2004
The Smoking Room (TV Series)
2004
Life Begins (TV Series)
2003
Coupling (US) (TV Series)
2003
Grass (TV Series)
2001
Baddiel's Syndrome (TV Series)
2000
2000
Coupling (TV Series)
2000
Beast (TV Series)
1999
Hippies (TV Series)
1999
The Grimleys (TV Series)
1996
1995
Is It Legal? (TV Series)
1994
1993
1992
1990
The Upper Hand (TV Series)
1989
Birds Of A Feather (TV Series)
1982
'Allo 'Allo! (TV Series)

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