Vivian Milroy
{{Short description|English director and producer (1917–2009)}}
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Television director
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Vivian Milroy (1917–2009) was an English director and producer working in both film and television,[https://web.archive.org/web/20180501225432/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f2caf4b British Film Institute: Vivian Milroy][https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590588/ IMDB: Vivian Milroy] and was also a screenwriter in both mediums. He first trained as an actor at RADA,[https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles/vivian-milroy/ RADA: Vivian Milroy] graduating in 1939, and for a short time at the very start of his career, he performed as an actor in television films. He is best known for the films Don't Say Die[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175577/?ref_=nm_knf_t1 IMDB: Vivian Milroy 'Don't Say Die'] (1950), which he both directed and wrote, and Crow Hollow[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044521/?ref_=nm_knf_i2 IMDB: Vivian Milroy: 'Crow Hollow'] (1952); and also for directing Armchair Theatre and Coronation Street.[https://web.archive.org/web/20181121021911/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/518d712bbff2f British Film Institute: Vivian Milroy: Coronation Street]
Filmography
=Television (Director)=
- Torchy the Battery Boy (Series Two, 1959-60)
- Coronation Street (1961-63)
- ITV Play of the Week (1961)
- Armchair Theatre (1957)
- Hour of Mystery (1957)
- Those Kids (1956)
=Television (Producer)=
- Jack and the Beanstalk (Short) (1956)
- The Star of Bethlehem (TV Short) (1956)
- Wednesday Theatre (TV Series) (1953)
- The Practical Jokers (1953)
- Huckleberry Finn (TV Series) (1952)
- Back to the River (1952)
- The Auction (1952)
- The Wilks' Fortune (1952)
- The Rightful King of France? (1952)
- Life on the Mississippi (1952)
- The Man in Armour (1952)
- All's Well (1952)
- Lost Property (1952)
- Fancy Dress (1952)
- Teaching Teacher (1952)
- Back in Armour (1952)
- 1952 Persephone (1952)
=Film (Director)=
- Don't Say Die (1950)
=Film (Producer)=
- The Fish and the Angel (TV Movie) (1953)
- Skippy Smith Goes to the Circus (TV Movie) (1953)
- Tom's Goblin (TV Movie) (1953)
- An American Gentleman (TV Movie) (1953)
- The Princess and the Pea (TV Movie) (1952)
- The Princess and the Woodcutter (TV Movie) (1952)
- The Locked Room (TV Movie) (1952)
- The Princess and the Swineherd (TV Movie) (1951)
- Rumpelstiltskin (TV Movie) (1951)
- John of the Fair (TV Movie) (1951)
- Don't Say Die (1950)
- The Song in the Forest (TV Movie) (1950)
- Cupid and the Commander (TV Movie) (1949)
- The Bishop's Candlesticks (TV Short) (1949)
- The Ghost of Monsieur Tronjolly (TV Movie) (1949)
=Screenwriter and writer=
- Formula for Danger (1960)
- Crow Hollow (1952)
- The Sunday Break (1958)
- 1954 Earthquake in Macedonia (1954)
- 1953 The Fish and the Angel (1953)
- Don't Say Die (1950)
- The Song in the Forest (TV Movie) (1950)
- The Innocent Crocodile (TV Movie) (1948)
=Actor=
- Big Ben (TV Movie) (1949)
- 1948 The Rivals (TV Movie) (1948)
- 1948 Take Back Your Freedom (TV Movie) (1948)
External links
- {{IMDb name|0590588}}
References
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Category:Film directors from London
Category:English television directors
Category:Film producers from London
Category:Television producers from London