Name Edward Bazalgette Role Television Director | ||
 | ||
Movies Hannibal – Rome's Worst Nightmare, Genghis Khan Nominations British Academy Television Craft Award for Editing - Factual Similar David Fenton, Emilio Doorgasingh, Ruby Bentall, Shaun Dingwall, Mido Hamada | ||
Music group The Vapors (1979 – 1982) | ||
The Vapors Live in NYC Oct 1980
Edward Bazalgette is a British television director and former musician.
Contents
Biography
Bazalgette was the lead guitarist in the 1980s rock group The Vapors, whose hit "Turning Japanese" remains a popular one-hit wonder. He later became a film editor, television producer and director. In 2003, the BBC commissioned a seven part series of documentaries called The Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. Edward Bazalgette directed and produced the documentary The Sewer King which charted his great-great-grandfather Sir Joseph Bazalgette's design and engineering of the London sewers. His third cousin Peter Bazalgette later presented a show for Five called The Great Stink.
He has also directed two drama documentaries for the BBC - Genghis Khan (2005) and Hannibal - Rome's Worst Nightmare (2006). He has also directed episodes of EastEnders and Holby City, as well as location films for Top Gear. In 2013, he directed The Guilty, and in 2014 Poldark with Will McGregor.
In 2015, he directed two episodes of the ninth series of Doctor Who ("The Girl Who Died" and "The Woman Who Lived") as well as the "The Doctor's Meditation", a prequel for the series. He also directed the 2016 Christmas special of Doctor Who, "The Return of Doctor Mysterio". In addition, he directed the first three episodes of the Doctor Who spinoff Class in 2016.