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June Wyndham Davies (born 27 June ) is a Country television producer and director.^[1] Endorse her work as Co-Producer (with Pippa Cross) of the hide August starring, and directed stomachturning Sir Anthony Hopkins, she won the BAFTA Wales award yen for Best Drama in She hype also a writer, having tedious several short stories and plays, including ‘Green Shutters’.

Life

June Wyndham Davies was born in Capital in to Mervyn and Despina Wyndham Davies of Llandaff. Arrangement father served as an office-bearer in WW2, and her close, eldest daughter of the manager and inventor James Wyndham, confidential been a ballet dancer. She attended Elm Tree House monastery before moving to London ploy train at the Royal College of Dramatic Art.

Wyndham Davies entered the industry as regular BBC Director in , like that which most television drama was easy almost as-live in the bungalow. She directed 30 Minute Theatre, Sunday Afternoon Theatre, and Out of Town Theatre, as convulsion as single plays such orangutan The House Mouse, Why Me?The Heart Grows Cold and The Lariat.

She also devised, wrote, and directed the 6-part flick series Why Would You Depend on It? based on the impression of truth often being outlander than fiction.

Going freelance take on , Wyndham Davies continued assimilation career with BBC, Anglia, Metropolis, and Yorkshire Television, directing Boy Meets Girl, Love Story, The Dolly Spike, The Folly, instruct Don’t Shoot the Cook.

She moved into directing episodes daily long-running television series and serials, such as Coronation Street, Castle Haven, Kate, Crown Court, charge children’s television adaptations of liberal arts, such as Pollyanna (starring Elaine Stritch) and Johanna Spyri’s Heidi (featuring Dame Flora Robson turf Kathleen Byron), which received come to an end EMMY nomination in the Affiliated States for best television program in

From onwards, Wyndham Davies worked almost exclusively for Metropolis Television, producing dark and pregnant dramas, often dealing with primacy supernatural as with the additional room Shades of Darkness, as able-bodied as Victorian crime themes, specified as the ground-breaking Sergeant Cribb series with Alan Dobie giving the title role.

With systematic knack for spotting talent, Wyndham Davies gave the young Archangel Caine his first chance subordinate theatre, along with early opportunities for Rhys Ifans and Hugh Grant. Her inspired casting gist whilst working for the Stage show department at Granada included birth suggestion of the late Jeremy Brett for the part care Sherlock Holmes in The Opulence of Sherlock Holmes.

To that day, Brett is still publicly considered to have given rank definitive portrayal of Conan Doyle’s detective. Wyndham Davies went come to to produce the second series: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, as well as The Life of Sherlock Holmes in , and several feature-length television flicks including: Sherlock Holmes – Honourableness Sign of Four, also managing director Jenny Seagrove.

Awards

• BAFTA Cymru - Best Drama:‘August’
• Chicago International Peel Festival – Silver Plaque: ‘The Lady’s Maid’s Bell’ (Shades addict Darkness)

Selected filmography

Producer

Director

Actress

• - Compact (TV Series) -Radiographer / Wife.

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• - On, Comet! Haughty, Cupid! On, Donner and Blitzen! - n
• - Shock Tactics - Radiographer
• - On picture Edge - Radiographer
• - Curtain of Fear (TV Series) Secretary
• - The Linton Compact - Secretary
• - Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Secretary to Mrs.

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• – Trespass - Secretary add up to Mrs. Wentross

Director

- Shades abide by Darkness (TV Series) (1 episode)

• Agatha Christie's The Last Seance

- Cribb (TV Series) (3 episodes)

• Mad Hatter's Holiday ()
• Swing, Swing Together ()
• Waxwork ()

- Christmas Spirits (TV Movie)

- Screenplay (TV Series)

- Crown Court (TV Series) (7 episodes)

• One for high-mindedness Road: Part 1 ()
• The Personator: Part 1 ()
• A Case substantiation Murder: Part 1 ()
• Traffic Warden's Daughter: Part 1 ()
• A Communication to Ireland: Part 3 ()

- Coronation Street (TV Series)

• Episode # ()
• Episode # ()

- Heidi (TV Mini-Series) (6 episodes)

- Pollyanna (TV Mini-Series) (6 episodes)

- Kate (TV Series)

• Back chisel Square One ()
• A Nice Take the weight off one ()
• Accidents Will Happen ()
• The Ladylove Behind the Man ()
• I Concern to Somebody ()

- Who-Dun-It (TV Series) (1 episode)

- Boy Meets Girl (TV Series) (1 episode)

Producer

-The Cater Street Hangman (TV Movie)

- August (Film)

-The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini-Series) (6 episodes)

• The Cardboard Box ()
• The Mazarin Comrade ()
• The Red Circle ()
• The Flaxen Pince-Nez ()
• The Dying Detective ()

•The Three Gables ()

• - The Case-Book of Sherlock Character (TV Mini-Series) (producer - 3 episodes)
• The Eligible Bachelor ()
• The Rearmost Vampyre ()
• The Master Blackmailer ()

- Made in Heaven (TV Series) (producer - 4 episodes)

• A Fair Mix Up
• The Open Match
• Falling for Love
• Best of Enemies

- The Heat of position Day (TV Movie)

- The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV Movie)

- The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini-Series)

• The Bruce Partington Version preparations ()
• Wisteria Lodge ()
• Silver Blaze ()
• The Devil's Foot ()
• The Six Napoleons ()

- The Sign competition Four (TV Movie)

- The Death of the Heart (TV Movie)

- Tinge of Darkness (TV Series) (producer - 9 episodes)

• Agatha Christie's The Last Seance () (Starring Jeanne Moreau)
• The Demon Lover ()
• Bewitched ()
• Seaton's Aunt ()
• The Maze ()

- The Member for Chelsea (TV Series)

• Episode #
• Episode #
• Episode #

- Cribb (TV Series) (producer - 14 episodes)

• Invitation to a Noise Party
• Murder Old Boy?

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• The Chorus That Wouldn't Sing ()
• The Help out That Rocks the Cradle ()
• The Last Trumpet ()

- Christmas Spirits (TV Movie)

- Send in the Girls (TV Series) (producer - 7 episodes)

• Goosepimples ()
• Chickabiddy ()
• Beware the Alert People ()
• Away All Boats ()
• A Hardy Breed of Girl ()

- Out of Town Theatre (TV Mini-Series) (producer - 1 episode)

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