Verity Lambert

Personal Info

Known For Producer

Gender Female

Birthday 1935-11-27

Deathday 2007-11-22 (71 years old)

Place of Birth Hampstead, London, England, UK

Also Known As Verity Ann Lambert

Verity Lambert

Biography

Verity Ann Lambert OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. Lambert began working in television in the 1950s. She began her career as a producer at the BBC by becoming the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who from 1963 until 1965. She left the BBC in 1969 and worked for other television companies, notably having a long association with Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and 1980s. Her many credits as producer include Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder, Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek, Love Soup and Eldorado. She also worked in the film industry for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. From 1985 she ran her own production company, Cinema Verity. She continued to work as a producer until the year she died. Women were rarely television producers in Britain at the beginning of Lambert's career. When she was appointed to Doctor Who in 1963, she was BBC Television's only female drama producer, as well as the youngest. The website of the Museum of Broadcast Communications hails her as "not only one of Britain's leading businesswomen, but possibly the most powerful member of the nation's entertainment industry ... Lambert has served as a symbol of the advances won by women in the media". The British Film Institute's Screenonline website describes Lambert as "one of those producers who can often create a fascinating small screen universe from a slim script and half-a-dozen congenial players." Description above from the Wikipedia article Verity Lambert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Producer

2023
2005
Love Soup

as Producer

2001
The Cazalets

as Producer

1997
A Perfect State

as Producer

1997
Jonathan Creek

as Producer

1995
She's Out

as Executive Producer

1992
Running Late

as Producer

1992
So Haunt Me

as Producer

1991
Sleepers

as Executive Producer

1991
G.B.H.

as Executive Producer

1991
Boys from the Bush

as Producer

1991
Sleepers

as Producer

1989
May to December

as Producer

1988
Evil Angels

as Producer

1988
American Roulette

as Executive Producer

1986
Clockwise

as Executive Producer

1986
Link

as Executive Producer

1985
Dreamchild

as Executive Producer

1985
Morons from Outer Space

as Executive Producer

1983
1983
Widows

as Producer

1983
Reilly: Ace of Spies

as Executive Producer

1983
The Nation's Health

as Executive Producer

1981
1981
1981
The Flame Trees of Thika

as Executive Producer

1980
Fox

as Executive Producer

1979
Macbeth

as Executive Producer

1979
Quatermass

as Executive Producer

1978
The Sailor's Return

as Executive Producer

1976
Rock Follies

as Producer

1975
The Naked Civil Servant

as Executive Producer

1974
1973
A.D.A.M.

as Producer

1973
Achilles Heel

as Producer

1966
1965
1965
1965
1965
1965
1964
1964
1964
1963
Doctor Who

as Producer

Creator

1979
Minder

as Creator

1963
Doctor Who

as Creator