Biography
Bill Hays (15 March 1938 – 2 March 2006) was a British television director who is best remembered for the award-winning Orde Wingate and Rock Follies, a BBC adaptation of the Ivan Turgenev play A Month in the Country (1985), The Tale of Beatrix Potter (1982), a biographical drama with Penelope Wilton in the lead, and the television version of the Alex Glasgow/Alan Plater musical play Close the Coalhouse Door (1969), a late entry in The Wednesday Play series now lost.Hays also directed the second and third series of the LWT secret agent drama Wish Me Luck broadcast in 1989 and 1990. After he retired from directing, he ran a guesthouse, Chambre d'Hôtes Valentin, in central France, with his actress wife Catherine Schell. His health declined over the last few years of his life until his death in March 2006.
Filmography
all 33
Director 32
TV Shows 21
Movies 12
Writer 1
Hothouse (1988)
Wish Me Luck (1988)
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987)
Quartermaine's Terms (1987)
Time After Time (1986)
Boon (1986)
Lovejoy (1986)
Death Is Part of the Process (1986)
EastEnders (1985)
Bird Fancier (1985)
The Bill (1984)
The Tale of Beatrix Potter (1983)
The Tale of Beatrix Potter (1982)
Shades (1982)
Play for Tomorrow (1982)
Random Moments in a May Garden (1981)
A Turn for the Worse (1981)
The Good Companions (1980)
The Serpent Son (1979)
Rock Follies (1976)
Rumpole of the Bailey (1975)
Looking for Clancy (1975)
Fall of Eagles (1974)
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them (1974)
Trouble in Tahiti (1973)
File It Under Fear (1973)
Thriller (1973)
Lady Killer (1973)
Codename (1970)
Softly, Softly (1966)
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962)
Z-Cars (1962)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1938-03-15
Deathday2006-03-02 (67 years old)
RelationshipsCatherine Schell (1982-01-01 - 2006-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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