Paddy Russell

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 director Rudolph Cartier. She worked on the "Quatermass" science-fiction serials, as well as the famous 1954 adaptation of George 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

*imdb name|id=0751373|name=Paddy Russell

References

*"Doctor Who", "Horror Fang Rock", BBC Video, 2005. "Paddy Russell: A Life in Television".


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