Robert Young

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1933-03-16 (91 years old)

Place of Birth Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Also Known As Robert W. Young, Robert William Young

Robert Young

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert William Young (born 16 March 1933) is a British television and film director. Young was born in Cheltenham, and in the 1980s and early 1990s, established himself as a leading director of British TV drama. In the 1970s, he directed Vampire Circus (1972) and Hammer House of Horror. He directed several episodes of Minder and Bergerac in the early 1980s, and the acclaimed TV serial The Mad Death which centred around a rabies outbreak. Perhaps his best remembered television work was on Robin of Sherwood, for which he directed many of the best-regarded episodes. Young moved towards black comedy in the early 1990s, directing Jeeves and Wooster based on the stories written by P.G. Wodehouse, and GBH, for which he was nominated for a BATA award. It was partly on the strength of GBH that he was assigned to direct Fierce Creatures, John Cleese's 1997 follow-up to A Fish Called Wanda, which featured many of the same cast as GBH. However, the production ran into problems and Fred Schepisi was brought in to finalise the movie. Young did, however, direct Splitting Heirs, which starred Cleese and Eric Idle. Young has continued to work on television drama since then. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Young (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Known For

Director

2014
2012
Wide Blue Yonder

as Director

2007
Blood Monkey

as Director

2007
Eichmann

as Director

2006
Bye, Bye Harry

as Director

1999
Captain Jack

as Director

1999
Camino de Santiago

as Director

1997
Jane Eyre

as Director

1997
Fierce Creatures

as Director

1994
Doomsday Gun

as Director

1994
White Goods

as Director

1994
1993
Splitting Heirs

as Director

1992
Hostage

as Director

1991
Alive and Kicking

as Director

1991
G.B.H.

as Director

1990
Jeeves and Wooster

as Director

1989
One Way Out

as Director

1989
Blore M.P.

as Director

1987
1986
The Worst Witch

as Director

1984
Robin of Sherwood

as Director

1983
The Mad Death

as Director

1981
Bergerac

as Director

1980
1979
Minder

as Director

1978
1977
Soldier's Home

as Director

1976
1972
Vampire Circus

as Director

Producer

2014
2012
Wide Blue Yonder

as Producer