Oliver Horsbrugh

{{Short description|British television director (1937–2009)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

Oliver Horsbrugh (1937 – August 2009) was a British television director most recently for Emmerdale. He also directed episodes of the top rated ITV1 soap opera, Coronation Street, from the early 1970s. He won a BAFTA as part of the Emmerdale team in 2001 when the programme was awarded the Best Soap Award.{{cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/2001/television/soap|title=Television {{!}} Soap in 2001|publisher=British Academy Film Awards|accessdate=6 October 2019}}

Horsbrugh was born to a family of actors; Walter Horsbrugh and Sheila Beckett.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/sep/27/obituary-oliver-horsbrugh|author=Fergusson, Nicholas|title=Oliver Horsbrugh obituary|work=The Guardian|date=27 September 2009|accessdate=6 October 2019}}

His early training was at the BBC.{{cite web|url=http://www.bafta.org/heritage/in-memory-of/oliver-horsbrugh|title=Oliver Horsbrugh|date=11 May 2012 |publisher=British Academy Film Awards|accessdate=6 October 2019}}

His daughter Rebecca is a sports journalist with SNTV, the sports television arm of Associated Press TV.