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Verity Lambert is a Producer British born on 27 november 1935 at London (United-kingdom)
Verity Ann Lambert OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. She was the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who, a programme which has become a part of British popular culture, and she had a long association with Thames Television. Her many credits include Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder,
Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek and Love Soup.
Lambert began working in television in the 1950s, and continued to work as a producer until the year she died. After leaving the BBC in 1969, she worked for other television companies, notably Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and 80s. She also worked in the film industry, for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, and from 1985 ran her own production company, Cinema Verity.
The British Film Institute's Screenonline website describes Lambert as "one of those producers who can often create a fascinating small screen universe from a slim script and half-a-dozen congenial players."
Women were rarely television producers in Britain at the beginning of Lambert's career. When she was appointed to Doctor Who in 1963 she was the youngest producer, and only female drama producer, working at the BBC. The website of the Museum of Broadcast Communications hails her as "not only one of Britain's leading businesswomen, but possibly the most powerful member of the nation's entertainment industry ... Lambert has served as a symbol of the advances won by women in the media". She died the day before the 44th anniversary of the first showing of Doctor Who.
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Birth name Verity Ann Lambert
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 27 november 1935 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 22 november 2007 (at 71 years)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 27 november 1935 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 22 november 2007 (at 71 years)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek and Love Soup.
Lambert began working in television in the 1950s, and continued to work as a producer until the year she died. After leaving the BBC in 1969, she worked for other television companies, notably Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and 80s. She also worked in the film industry, for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, and from 1985 ran her own production company, Cinema Verity.
The British Film Institute's Screenonline website describes Lambert as "one of those producers who can often create a fascinating small screen universe from a slim script and half-a-dozen congenial players."
Women were rarely television producers in Britain at the beginning of Lambert's career. When she was appointed to Doctor Who in 1963 she was the youngest producer, and only female drama producer, working at the BBC. The website of the Museum of Broadcast Communications hails her as "not only one of Britain's leading businesswomen, but possibly the most powerful member of the nation's entertainment industry ... Lambert has served as a symbol of the advances won by women in the media". She died the day before the 44th anniversary of the first showing of Doctor Who.
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Heavy Weather (1995)
Directed by Jack Gold
Genres Comedy
Actors Judy Parfitt, Richard Briers, Peter O'Toole, David Bamber, Rebecca Lacey, Richard Johnson
Roles Producer
Rating69%
Though abridged for a 90-minute film, Heavy Weather followed closely the novel of 1933, the fourth in the Blandings series. Many of the familiar elements of the Blandings books were present: the wish of Lord Emsworth's nephew, Ronnie Fish, to marry a chorus girl, Sue Brown; the concern of Emsworth's sisters, the imperious Lady Constance Keeble and Ronnie's mother Lady Julia Fish, to ensure that the reminiscences of their other brother, the Hon. Galahad Threepwood, were not published; Galahad's protectiveness towards Miss Brown, the daughter of his long lost love Dolly Henderson; the sustained efforts of the publisher Lord Tilbury (a character probably based on Lord Northcliffe) to gain possession of the reminiscences; Lord Emsworth's determination that his prize Berkshire pig, the Empress of Blandings, should win the silver medal in the fat pigs class at the Shrewsbury agricultural show; Lord Emsworth's employment of a private detective, P. Frobisher Pilbeam, to protect the Empress and his rivalry with his neighbour, Sir Gregory Parsloe, of Matchingham Hall, who had not only his own designs on the fat pigs class, but, as a prospective Parliamentary candidate, an interest in suppressing Galahad's reminiscences; and the employment as Lord Emsworth's secretary of Monty Bodkin, who, as with most holders of that office, had an ulterior motive (in this instance, the need to hold down paid employment for a year in order to be considered suitable to marry one Gertrude Butterwick).
American Roulette (1988)
, 1h42Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Andy García, Kitty Aldridge, Robert Stephens, Peter Guinness, Sheila Burrell, Al Matthews
Roles Executive Producer
Rating43%
A Latin American President is overthrown in a military coup and forms a government-in-exile in London. The Generals want him out of the way, and send agents to kill him. Meanwhile several of the world's major intelligence agencies are also keeping a watch on him.
Evil Angels (1988)
, 1h58Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin Australie
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Deborra-Lee Furness, Bruce Myles, Bud Tingwell, Charles Dance
Roles Producer
Rating68%
Seventh-day Adventist Church pastor Michael Chamberlain (Sam Neill), his wife Lindy (Meryl Streep), their two sons, and their nine-week-old daughter Azaria are on a camping holiday trip in the Outback. With the baby sleeping in their tent, the family is enjoying a barbecue with their fellow campers when a cry is heard. Lindy returns to the tent to check on Azaria and is certain she sees a dingo with something in its mouth running off as she approaches. When she discovers the infant is missing, everyone joins forces to search for her, without success. It is assumed what Lindy saw was the animal carrying off the child, and a subsequent inquest rules her account of events is true.
Clockwise (1986)
, 1h36Directed by Christopher Morahan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors John Cleese, Penelope Wilton, Alison Steadman, Stephen Moore, Patrick Godfrey, Joan Hickson
Roles Executive Producer
Rating65%
Brian Stimpson (Cleese), headmaster of Thomas Tompion Comprehensive School, has been elected to chair the annual Headmasters' Conference. Habitually disorganised as a young man, Stimpson is now fastidiously organized and punctual, and his school runs "like clockwork". He is the first headmaster of a comprehensive school to chair a Headmaster's Conference, that honour usually being reserved for heads of the more prestigious private schools.
Link (1986)
, 1h43Directed by Richard Franklin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Films about apes, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Elisabeth Shue, Terence Stamp, David O'Hara, Kevin Lloyd, Linus Roache, Geoffrey Beevers
Roles Executive Producer
Rating59%
Jane Chase une étudiante américaine en zoologie au collège des sciences de Londres est engagée par le professeur Steven Phillip pour s'occuper de sa villa sur la côte.
Dreamchild (1985)
, 1h34Directed by Gavin Millar
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Films about cats, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Films based on Alice in Wonderland, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Nicola Cowper, Jane Asher, Amelia Shankley
Roles Executive Producer
Rating65%
The film begins on the ship bearing Alice (Coral Browne) and Lucy from England to New York. As she and Lucy (Nicola Cowper) disembark, they are set upon by several journalists, all trying to get a story or quote from her. Clearly bewildered by all the excitement, she is befriended by an ex-reporter, Jack Dolan (Peter Gallagher), who helps her and Lucy through the legions of the press. Dolan quickly becomes her agent and finds endorsement opportunities for her. Throughout it all, a romance develops between Jack and Lucy.
Morons from Outer Space (1985)
, 1h31Directed by Mike Hodges
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Jimmy Nail, James Sikking, Mark Lewis Jones, André Maranne
Roles Executive Producer
Rating45%
The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with the ship’s controls while Bernard is outside playing spaceball. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by (Earth).
Saigon: Year Of The Cat (1983)
Directed by Stephen Frears
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Judi Dench, Frederic Forrest, Wallace Shawn, E. G. Marshall, Josef Sommer, Clarke Peters
Roles Producer
Rating56%
Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), an assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon in 1974, begins a relationship with American Bob Chesneau (Frederic Forrest), and quickly senses that he works for the CIA. Chesneau realises that the fall of Vietnam to the North Vietnamese is for the very near future.
The Flame Trees of Thika (1981)
Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Hayley Mills, Holly Aird, David Robb, Ben Cross, Sharon Maughan, John Nettleton
Roles Executive Producer
Rating78%
Robin Grant(David Robb), his wife Tilly (Hayley Mills) and daughter Elspeth (Holly Aird) move to British East Africa (now called Kenya) to set up a coffee plantation. The meet Piet Roos, a Boer big game hunter and Njombo, a native who goes to work from them. The Grants face many travails in getting established, but these improve after they hire Sammy as the headman of the plantation. Hereward (Nicholas Jones) and Lettice {Sharon Maughan Palmer move to the area. There is a fight between Roos and Sammy. Then Njombo kills Kimon, who was the Palmer’s headman. As a result his chief strips him of his property and Sammy marries the girl Njombo wanted. Elspeth has a very interesting New Year’s Eve party with Mrs. Nimmo and a newcomer to the area Alec Wilson while her parents and the Palmers go to Nairobi. A big game hunter, Ian Crawford (Ben Cross) arrives in the area and becomes infatuated with Lettice Palmer, who gives a pony to Elspeth. We learn Lettice left her first husband to elope with Hereward and Elspeth develops an intense dislike for Hereward Palmer after he shoots a baby antelope on a hunt. Sammy arranges for a curse to be put on Njombo, and it literally takes an “Act of God” to get it lifted. After the railroad reaches Thika, Lettice gets a piano, but during a party held to celebrate its arrival, a leopard kills one of her dogs. During the hunt to get it, Hereward kills the leopard, but is almost killed by its mate, but saved by Roos. The Palmers, Tilly and Crawford go on a safari, during which Lettice and Crawford have an affair. Hereward and Crawford are about to have a brawl when Crawford’s servant stabs Hereward. As a result Crawford leaves and Lettice stays with Hereward. Then on August 4, 1914 the Grants learn war has been declared on Germany. Robin joins the army, while Tilly becomes a nurse and Elspeth goes to school, where she is bullied for being a know-it-all. She runs away back to Thika. Ian Crawford is killed. Then Robin is transferred to France so all the Grants leave Africa and return to Europe for the duration.
Macbeth (1979)
, 2h25Directed by Trevor Nunn
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Films about royalty
Actors Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, John Woodvine, Ian McDiarmid, Bob Peck, Roger Rees
Roles Executive Producer
Rating75%
Charlie Muffin (1979)
Directed by Jack Gold
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors David Hemmings, Jennie Linden, Sam Wanamaker, Ralph Richardson, Ian William Richardson, Pinkas Braun
Roles Executive producer
Rating66%
The Cold War espionage thriller follows the moves of British anti-hero spy Charlie Muffin (Hemmings) who has fallen on hard times since the forced retirement of Sir Archibald Willoughby, his previous boss at the U.K. secret service (played by Sir Ralph Richardson). His new boss, Sir Henry Cuthbertson (Ian Richardson), who epitomizes the haughty upper class British imperialist, hardly attempts to conceal his disdain for the under-educated agent who quite obviously doesn't stem from the "right class". Right at the start of the film, we witness how Charlie has evidently been deemed expendable and accordingly gets set up to be caught or killed during a joint mission in East Germany — this despite Muffin essentially having been responsible for the mission's success. Cuthbertson's lap-dog agents Snare and Harrison — who are both totally lacking in experience and as arrogant as their boss — are shocked and embarrassed to see Muffin returning alive and well.
The Sailor's Return (1978)
Directed by Jack Gold
Themes Films about racism
Actors Tom Bell, Denyse Alexander, Nigel Hawthorne, Paola Dionisotti, Ray Smith, Bernard Hill
Roles Executive Producer
Rating67%
Un marin revient dans sa ville natale pour y ouvrir un pub. Il amène avec lui sa femme noire et leurs enfants. Bien vite, ils se retrouvent mis au ban de la société et agressés.
The Naked Civil Servant (1975)
, 1h17Directed by Jack Gold
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors John Hurt, John Rhys-Davies, Quentin Crisp, Katherine Schofield, Colin Higgins, Patricia Hodge
Roles Executive Producer
Rating78%
Homosexuel efféminé dans la société britannique intolérante des années 1930, Quentin Crisp décide de laisser libre cours à sa personnalité flamboyante. Ses tenues et son maquillage, ainsi que son humour, amènent les gens à le remarquer et l'accepter.