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Shaun Sutton

Producer, Director, Actor
Born October 14, 1919Died May 14, 2004 (84 years)
Shaun Alfred Graham Sutton (14 October 1919 – 14 May 2004) was an English television writer, director, producer and executive, who worked in the medium for nearly forty years from the 1950s to the 1990s. His most important role was as the Head of Drama at BBC Television from the late 1960s until 1981, a role he occupied for longer than anyone else.

Known For

  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • Richard III
  • Macbeth
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes
  • The Browning Version
  • The Tragedy of Coriolanus
  • King Lear
  • Love's Labour's Lost
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • Pericles, Prince of Tyre
  • The Comedy of Errors
  • Cymbeline
  • Titus Andronicus
  • The Life and Death of King John
  • BBC Television Shakespeare
  • Z Cars
  • Merlin of the Crystal Cave

Filmography

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