Martin Lisemore

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| birth_date = July 1939

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1977|2|3|1939|7||df=y}}

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| occupation = Television producer

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| spouse = Sarah Lisemore

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Martin Arnold Lisemore (July 1939 – 3 February 1977) was a British television producer.

Educated at Abingdon School and then Hardye's School, Dorchester, Lisemore rose through the ranks of the BBC drama department for some years,{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/genome/entries/2d039235-8a57-4265-a607-7f534af7950f?postId=125450777&initial_page_size=20|title=The Sunday Post: I, Claudius|date=25 September 2016 |publisher=BBC}} and became a producer in the late 1960s.{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f4e9c9e|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021012145/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f4e9c9e|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 October 2016|title=Martin Lisemore|publisher=BFI}} He was responsible for many period drama adaptations, including The Woodlanders, The Spoils of Poynton, Jude the Obscure (1971), Sense and Sensibility (1971) and Emma (1972).

Lisemore quickly established himself as a leading producer of classic period drama, often working in partnership with script editor Betty Willingale.{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/betty-willingale-obituary-wtkcffsbf|title=Betty Willingale obituary|work=The Times|location=London|date=8 March 2021|access-date=8 March 2021}} {{subscription required}} He achieved his greatest success with the dramatisations of The Pallisers (1974), How Green Was My Valley (1975–76) and I Claudius (1976), the later winning both BAFTA and Emmy awards.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0514023/|title=Martin Lisemore|publisher=IMDb}}

Martin Lisemore was married to Sarah Lisemore, an actress who was the location stand-in for Deborah Watling for location material shot for the Doctor Who story The Enemy of the World in 1968 (Martin Lisemore was the Production Assistant - the BBC term, at the time, for First Assistant - on The Enemy of the World).

On 3 February 1977, during the production of his next series, Murder Most English, Lisemore was killed in a road accident.{{cite web|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxfshlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS271417413&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title="MR MARTIN LISEMORE Gifted television producer." Times [London, England] 5 Feb. 1977|work=The Times}}