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Robert Young

Director, Producer, Writer, Additional Credits
Born March 16, 1933 (91 years)
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Robert William Young (born 16 March 1933) is a British television and film director.

Young was born in Cheltenham, and in the 1980s and early 1990s, established himself as a leading director of British TV drama. In the 1970s, he directed Vampire Circus (1972) and Hammer House of Horror. He directed several episodes of Minder and Bergerac in the early 1980s, and the acclaimed TV serial The Mad Death which centred around a rabies outbreak. Perhaps his best remembered television work was on Robin of Sherwood, for which he directed many of the best-regarded episodes.

Young moved towards black comedy in the early 1990s, directing Jeeves and Wooster based on the stories written by P.G. Wodehouse, and GBH, for which he was nominated for a BATA award. It was partly on the strength of GBH that he was assigned to direct Fierce Creatures, John Cleese's 1997 follow-up to A Fish Called Wanda, which featured many of the same cast as GBH. However, the production ran into problems and Fred Schepisi was brought in to finalise the movie. Young did, however, direct Splitting Heirs, which starred Cleese and Eric Idle.

Young has continued to work on television drama since then.

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Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Robin of Sherwood
  • Vampire Circus
  • Jane Eyre
  • Hammer House of Horror
  • Blood Monkey
  • All at Sea
Known For
  • Fierce Creatures
  • Splitting Heirs
  • Robin of Sherwood
  • Vampire Circus
  • Eichmann
  • Jane Eyre
  • The Worst Witch
  • Jeeves and Wooster
  • Blood Monkey
  • Doomsday Gun
  • The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
  • GBH
  • The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells
  • Bergerac
  • All at Sea
  • The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
  • Hammer House of Horror
  • Captain Jack
  • Minder
  • Hostage
  • Keep It Up Downstairs
  • The World Is Full of Married Men
  • Camino de Santiago
  • The Mad Death

Filmography

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