Michael Hayes
Born: 1929-04-03 in Barking, Essex, UK
Died: 2014-09-16
Known For: Directing
Biography
Michael Hayes (3 April 1929 – 16 September 2014) was a British television director and newsreader. As a young man, Hayes was an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Later, he worked for the BBC in various roles, beginning as a studio manager for the World Service and working his way up to directing for television. His most notable work was directing the hugely successful BBC drama adaptations of various Shakespeare plays, collectively entitled An Age of Kings, in 1960. Amongst Hayes's other credits, he directed three Doctor Who serials starring Tom Baker, including 1979's City of Death and also helmed the BBC's 1961 adaptation of A for Andromeda.
Filmography
1984
- Nice ... (Director)
1983
- Skorpion ... (Director)
1981
- Tales from the Thousand and One Nights ... (Director)
1980
- A Christmas Carol ... (Director)
1979
- Prince Regent ... (Director)
- Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor ... (Director)
- Doctor Who: City of Death ... (Director)
1978
- All Creatures Great and Small ... (Director)
- The Standard ... (Director)
- Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara ... (Director)
- Merry Christmas Doctor Who ... (Director)
1976
- When the Boat Comes In ... (Director)
1975
- Oil Strike North ... (Director)
1974
- Churchill's People ... (Director)
- Rooms ... (Director)
1973
- The Table ... (Producer)
- The Mikado ... (Director)
1972
- The Sextet ... (Director)
- Mill Hill ... (Director)
1971
- Barlow ... (Director)
- The Onedin Line ... (Director)
1970
- Play for Today ... (Director)
- Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred ... (Director)
1969
- Review ... (Director)
- Take Three Girls ... (Producer)
- The Promise ... (Director)
1968
- The Jazz Age ... (Director)
- Charlie ... (Director)
- A Flea in Her Ear ... (Director)
- Infidelity Took Place ... (Director)
1967
- Boy Meets Girl ... (Director)
1966
- Softly, Softly ... (Director)
- Thirteen Against Fate ... (Director)
- The Spies ... (Director)
- The Executioner ... (Director)
1965
- Thirty-Minute Theatre ... (Director)
- The Troubleshooters ... (Director)
- The Wars of the Roses ... (Director)
- The Wars of the Roses ... (Director)
1964
- The Wednesday Play ... (Director)
- Theatre 625 ... (Director)
- Detective ... (Director)
- Sherlock Holmes ... (Director)
- Cluff ... (Director)
1963
- Doctor Who ... (Director)
- Festival ... (Director)
- Moonstrike ... (Director)
- First Night ... (Director)
1962
- Z-Cars ... (Director)
1961
- A for Andromeda ... (Producer)
1960
- Maigret ... (Director)
- Sunday-Night Play ... (Director)
- An Age of Kings ... (Director)