Verity Lambert
Born: 1935-11-27 in Hampstead, London, England, UK
Died: 2007-11-22
Known For: Production
Biography
Verity Ann Lambert OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. Lambert began working in television in the 1950s. She began her career as a producer at the BBC by becoming the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who from 1963 until 1965. She left the BBC in 1969 and worked for other television companies, notably having a long association with Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and 1980s. Her many credits as producer include Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder, Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek, Love Soup and Eldorado. She also worked in the film industry for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. From 1985 she ran her own production company, Cinema Verity. She continued to work as a producer until the year she died. 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 BBC Television's only female drama producer, as well as the youngest. 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". 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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Verity Lambert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2023
- Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour ... (Producer)
- Tales of the Tardis ... (Producer)
2021
- Doctor Who: Galaxy 4 ... (Creator)
2013
- Dr. Forever! as Herself
- The Celestial Toyroom
2012
- Vision On as Self (archive footage)
- Don't Lose Your Head: The Making of 'The Reign of Terror' as Herself (archive footage)
- The Lambert Tapes as Self
2011
2010
- Daleks! Beyond the Screen as Self
- Daleks! Conquer and Destroy as Self
2008
- Verity Lambert: Drama Queen as (Archive Footage)
2007
2006
- Doctor Who: Origins as Self
- Creation of the Daleks as Herself
- Masters of Sound as Self (archive footage)
- Over the Edge: The Story of 'The Edge of Destruction' as Self
- Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS as Self
2005
- Love Soup ... (Producer)
- Tales of Isop as Self
2002
- Remembering 'The Aztecs' as Self (in photo) (archive footage)
2001
- The Cazalets ... (Producer)
1997
- Jonathan Creek ... (Producer)
- A Night in with the Girls
- A Perfect State ... (Producer)
1996
- Myth Makers 35: Jacqueline Hill as Self
- Myth Makers 34: Verity Lambert as Self
1995
- She's Out ... (Executive Producer)
1994
- Class Act ... (Producer)
1993
- 30 Years in the TARDIS as Herself
1992
- Running Late ... (Producer)
- So Haunt Me ... (Producer)
1991
- Sleepers ... (Executive Producer)
- G.B.H. ... (Executive Producer)
- Boys from the Bush ... (Producer)
- Sleepers ... (Producer)
1989
- May to December ... (Producer)
1988
- Evil Angels ... (Producer)
- American Roulette ... (Executive Producer)
1986
- Clockwise ... (Executive Producer)
- Link ... (Executive Producer)
- The Last Moguls as Self
1985
- Dreamchild ... (Executive Producer)
- Morons from Outer Space ... (Executive Producer)
1983
- Saigon: Year of the Cat ... (Producer)
- Reilly: Ace of Spies ... (Executive Producer)
- Widows ... (Producer)
- The Nation's Health ... (Executive Producer)
1981
- The Flame Trees of Thika ... (Producer)
- Stainless Steel and the Star Spies ... (Executive Producer)
1980
- Fox ... (Executive Producer)
1979
- Minder ... (Creator)
- Macbeth ... (Executive Producer)
- Quatermass ... (Executive Producer)
1978
- The Sailor's Return ... (Executive Producer)
1976
- Rock Follies ... (Producer)
1975
- The Naked Civil Servant ... (Executive Producer)
1974
- Shoulder to Shoulder ... (Producer)
1973
- A.D.A.M. ... (Producer)
- Achilles Heel ... (Producer)
1966
- Adam Adamant Lives! ... (Producer)
1965
- Doctor Who: The Romans ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Chase ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Crusade ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Space Museum ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Time Meddler ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Rescue ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Web Planet ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Galaxy 4 ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Mission to the Unknown ... (Producer)
1964
- Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Aztecs ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Marco Polo ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Sensorites ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Planet of Giants ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Daleks ... (Producer)
1963
- Doctor Who ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child ... (Producer)