John Alexander (director)

{{Short description|British television director}}

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John Alexander is a British director of television drama who grew up in the East Durham Coal Field and joined the BBC as a post-graduate trainee. He produced a number of documentaries before directing drama. His works include Quirke,{{cite news |last1=McEwan |first1=Cameron |title='Quirke' preview |url=https://cultbox.co.uk/features/previews/quirke-preview |access-date=21 August 2024 |work=CultBox |date=6 January 2014}} The 7.39, Sense and Sensibility,{{cite web | last=Monaghan | first=David | title=Multiple Authors: The Making of Sense & Sensibility (BBC, 2007) | website=Home » JASNA | url=https://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/volume-43-no-1/monaghan | access-date=2024-08-21}}{{cite book | last=Dove-Viebahn | first=A. | title=There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises | publisher=Rutgers University Press | year=2023 | isbn=978-1-9788-3613-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UabfEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT143 | access-date=2024-08-21 | page=143}}{{cite book | last=Wells | first=J. | title=Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination | publisher=Bloomsbury Academic | year=2012 | isbn=978-1-4411-4554-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=toCazJ1FQ0YC&pg=PA237 | access-date=2024-08-21 | page=237}} Small Island, Exile, One Child{{cite book | last=Lewis | first=J. | title=Benedict Cumberbatch - The Biography | publisher=John Blake | year=2015 | isbn=978-1-78418-332-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-ubEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA258 | access-date=2024-08-21 | page=258}} and Belgravia.{{cite news |last1=McKelvie |first1=Robin |title=How Edinburgh stood in for Belgravia in new Sunday night TV show |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/18323662.edinburgh-stood-belgravia-new-sunday-night-tv-show |access-date=21 August 2024 |work=The Herald |date=21 March 2020}}

Small Island won an International Emmy for Best Mini-Series, and Sense and Sensibility won the Magnolia Best Director Prize at the Shanghai International Film Festival. Exile was BAFTA-nominated for Best Director Fiction and One Child was Royal Television Society-nominated for Best Director Fiction.