David Conroy

{{Short description|British television producer}}

David Conroy (born 11 April 1937) is a British television producer.

He worked as a production assistant on early episodes of Dr Who.[https://guide.doctorwhonews.net/person.php?code=3339 "David Conroy", Doctor Who Guide]. Retrieved 17 August 2022 In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was the producer of classic serials for BBC Two.[https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/01/surviving-the-mary-whitehouse-experience David Conroy, "Surviving the Mary Whitehouse experience", The Guardian, 1 April 2022]. Retrieved 17 August 2022 He is noted for producing dramatisations of historical novels, including The Woman in White (1966), Wuthering Heights (1967), Vanity Fair (1967), The Portrait of a Lady (1968), Middlemarch (1968), Nana (1968), The Roads to Freedom (1970), and War and Peace (1972).[https://web.archive.org/web/20201020041221/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f558ea9 "David Conroy", BFI]. Retrieved 17 August 2022 He produced the 1982 television adaptation of The Scarlet Pimpernel, and in 1990 produced the TV series and film Vincent & Theo, directed by Robert Altman.[https://bfidatadigipres.github.io/robert%20altman%20-%20american%20outsider/2021/07/03/vincent-and-theo/ "Vincent and Theo", BFI]. Retrieved 17 August 2022