Robert Young

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1933-03-16 (92 years old)

Place of Birth

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Robert Young

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert William Young (born 16 March 1933) is a British television and film director. Young was born in Cheltenham, and in the 1980s and early 1990s, established himself as a leading director of British TV drama. In the 1970s, he directed Vampire Circus (1972) and Hammer House of Horror. He directed several episodes of Minder and Bergerac in the early 1980s, and the acclaimed TV serial The Mad Death which centred around a rabies outbreak. Perhaps his best remembered television work was on Robin of Sherwood, for which he directed many of the best-regarded episodes. Young moved towards black comedy in th...

Production

1993

Splitting Heirs

as Director

1986

The Worst Witch

as Director

2007

Blood Monkey

as Director

1972

Vampire Circus

as Director

1997

Jane Eyre

as Director

1994

Doomsday Gun

as Director

1977

Soldier's Home

as Director

1999

Captain Jack

as Director

2012

Wide Blue Yonder

as Producer

1976

1997

Fierce Creatures

as Director

1978

1987

1992

Hostage

as Director

2007

Eichmann

as Director

1989

One Way Out

as Director

1989

Blore M.P.

as Director

2006

Bye, Bye Harry

as Director

2014

2014

1991

1994

White Goods

as Director

2012

Wide Blue Yonder

as Director

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