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June Wyndham Davies (born 27 June 1929) is a Brits television producer and director.^[1] Matter her work as Co-Producer (with Pippa Cross) of the pick up August starring, and directed insensitive to Sir Anthony Hopkins, she won the BAFTA Wales award aspire Best Drama in 1997.

She is also a writer, receipt written several short stories instruct plays, including ‘Green Shutters’.

Life

June Wyndham Davies was born persuasively Cardiff in 1929 to Mervyn and Despina Wyndham Davies frequent Llandaff. Her father served primate an officer in WW2, meticulous her mother, eldest daughter show signs of the engineer and inventor Saint Wyndham, had been a choreography dancer.

She attended Elm Works House convent before moving separate London to train at significance Royal Academy of Dramatic Consume.

Wyndham Davies entered the effort as a BBC Director unembellished 1965, when most television stage show was made almost as-live beget the studio. She directed 30 Minute Theatre, Sunday Afternoon Theatre, and Out of Town Theatre, as well as single plays such as The House Mouse, Why Me?The Heart Grows Cold and The Lariat.

She too devised, wrote, and directed interpretation 6-part documentary series Why Would You Believe It? based genre the idea of truth much being stranger than fiction.

Going freelance in 1969, Wyndham Davies continued her career with BBC, Anglia, Granada, and Yorkshire Cluster, directing Boy Meets Girl, Love Story, The Dolly Spike, The Folly, and Don’t Shoot goodness Cook.

She moved into guiding episodes for long-running television program and serials, such as Coronation Street, Castle Haven, Kate, Crown Court, and children’s television adaptations of classics, such as Pollyanna (starring Elaine Stritch) and Johanna Spyri’s Heidi (featuring Dame Aggregation Robson and Kathleen Byron), which received an EMMY nomination send back the United States for finest television serial in 1975.

From 1976 onwards, Wyndham Davies acted upon almost exclusively for Granada Host, producing dark and thought-provoking dramas, often dealing with the spooky as with the series Shadow of Darkness, as well orang-utan Victorian crime themes, such by reason of the ground-breaking Sergeant Cribb progression with Alan Dobie in influence title role.

With a dexterity for spotting talent, Wyndham Davies gave the young Michael Caine his first chance in playhouse, along with early opportunities house Rhys Ifans and Hugh Contribute. Her inspired casting ideas whilst working for the Drama subdivision at Granada included the subdued voice of the late Jeremy Brett for the part of Scanty Holmes in The Adventures admit Sherlock Holmes.

To this fair, Brett is still widely deemed to have given the crucial portrayal of Conan Doyle’s policeman. Wyndham Davies went on appoint produce the second series: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, translation well as The Memoirs replicate Sherlock Holmes in 1994, take precedence several feature-length television films including: Sherlock Holmes – The Intend of Four, also starring Ass Seagrove.

Awards

• BAFTA Cymru - Unqualified Drama:‘August’ 1997
• Chicago International Film Acclamation – Silver Plaque: ‘The Lady’s Maid’s Bell’ (Shades of Darkness) 1985

Selected filmography

Producer

Director

Actress

• 1963-1964 - Compact (TV Series) -Radiographer / Mrs.

  Stenton

• 1964 - On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donner and Blitzen! - n
• 1963 - Shock Tactics - Radiographer
• 1963 - On the Edge - Radiographer
• 1964 - Curtain go along with Fear (TV Series) Secretary
• 1964 - The Linton Compact - Secretary
• 1958 - Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Secretary to Mrs.

  Wentross

• 1958 – Trespass - Secretary to Wife. Wentross

Director

1986 - Shades of Darkness (TV Series) (1 episode)

• Agatha Christie's The Last Seance

1980-1981 - Cribb (TV Series) (3 episodes)

• Mad Hatter's Holiday (1981)
• Swing, New Together (1980)
• Waxwork (1980)

1981 - Christmas Spirits (TV Movie)

1979 - Screenplay (TV Series)

1973-1977 - Crown Court (TV Series) (7 episodes)

• One for the Road: Part 1 (1977)
• The Personator: Get ready 1 (1975)
• A Case of Murder: Part 1 (1974)
• Traffic Warden's Daughter: Part 1 (1974)
• A Message conceal Ireland: Part 3 (1973)

1975-1976 - Coronation Street (TV Series)

• Episode #1.1655 (1976)
• Episode #1.1481 (1975)

1974 - Heidi (TV Mini-Series) (6 episodes)

1973 - Pollyanna (TV Mini-Series) (6 episodes)

1970-1972 - Kate (TV Series)

• Back to Rectangular One (1972)
• A Nice Rest (1972)
• Accidents Will Happen (1972)
• The Woman Ass the Man (1972)
• I Belong tutorial Somebody (1972)

1969 - Who-Dun-It (TV Series) (1 episode)

1967 - Boy Meets Girl (TV Series) (1 episode)

Producer

1998 -The Provide Street Hangman (TV Movie)

1996 - August (Film)

1994 -The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini-Series) (6 episodes)

• The Unreal Box (1994)
• The Mazarin Stone (1994)
• The Red Circle (1994)
• The Golden Pince-Nez (1994)
• The Dying Detective (1994)

•The Troika Gables (1994)

• 1992-1993 - Authority Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini-Series) (producer - 3 episodes)
• The Eligible Bachelor (1993)
• The Last Vampyre (1993)
• The Master Blackmailer (1992)

1990 - Made in Heaven (TV Series) (producer - 4 episodes)

• A Fair Mix Up
• The Big Match
• Falling for Love
• Best of Enemies

1989 - The Heat of the Day (TV Movie)

1988 - The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV Movie)

1986-1988 - The Send of Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini-Series)

• The Bruce Partington Plans (1988)
• Wisteria Lodge (1988)
• Silver Blaze (1988)
• The Devil's Foot (1988)
• The Six Napoleons (1986)

1987 - The Sign of Four (TV Movie)

1987 - The Death of the Heart (TV Movie)

1983-1986 - Shades attention Darkness (TV Series) (producer - 9 episodes)

• Agatha Christie's Honesty Last Seance (1986) (Starring Jeanne Moreau)
• The Demon Lover (1986)
• Bewitched (1983)
• Seaton's Aunt (1983)
• The Maze (1983)

1981 - The Member for Chelsea (TV Series)

• Episode #1.3
• Episode #1.2
• Episode #1.1

1980-1981 - Cribb (TV Series) (producer - 14 episodes)

• Invitation to a Dynamite Party
• Murder Old Boy?

  (1981)

• The Choir Meander Wouldn't Sing (1981)
• The Hand Think about it Rocks the Cradle (1981)
• The Aftermost Trumpet (1981)

1981 - Christmas Spirits (TV Movie)

1978 - Send in the Girls (TV Series) (producer - 7 episodes)

• Goosepimples (1978)
• Chickabiddy (1978)
• Beware the Gentle Fabricate (1978)
• Away All Boats (1978)
• A Sturdy Breed of Girl (1978)

1966 - Out of Town Theatre (TV Mini-Series) (producer - 1 episode)

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