Person
Humphrey Burton
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Mar 21, 1931
- Died
- Dec 17, 2025
- From
- Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, UK
Author, broadcaster, director and producer. First Head of Music and Arts for BBC Television 1965-1967. Resumed the position again from 1975-1981 after an eight year absence in commercial television as a founder-member of London Weekend Television. For his work as a director, he has won four Emmy Awards, two British Academy Awards and as a presenter received the Royal Television Society Silver medal and Sony Gold Award.
Credits
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
Omnibus
The Opera House
Glenn Gould: Hereafter
The Golden Ring
Marevna and Marika
Elton John: Mr. Superfunk
BBC Young Musician
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Gordon Jacob
Karajan's Magic and Myth
La Stupenda
Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen
The Story of Pantomime
New York, New York - Saturday in SoHo/Watching My Name Go By
How the BBC Began
Conversations with Glenn Gould
Trouble in Tahiti