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Name
  
James Strong


Role
  
Television Director

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Movies
  
United, Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story, Elton John: Me, Myself & I, Of Mary

Nominations
  
British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Director - Fiction

Similar
  
Chris Chibnall, Russell T Davies, Gareth Roberts, Dean Andrews, Adrian Lester

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James Strong is a British television and film director and writer, best known for his work on Broadchurch for which he was BAFTA nominated for Best Director Fiction 2015. He trained as Director at Granada TV and has directed episodes of the shows Holby City and Doctors, as well as six episodes of Doctor Who and two episodes of its spin-off series Torchwood. His work on the Doctor Who episode "Voyage of the Damned" won him a BAFTA Cymru award for Best Director in 2008.

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In 2007, he directed the autobiographical documentary Elton John: Me, Myself & I and in 2008 he directed three episodes of Bonekickers. He then directed Hunted and Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story and Silent Witness in 2010 followed by the festure film United and Downton Abbey in 2011. He was then lead director and Associate producer on the multi-award winning Broadchurch. The series won six BAFTAs including Best Drama.

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James followed this with work on Series 2 of Broadchurch, the US remake Gracepoint in 2013 and other US pilots, including Kingmakers for ABC in 2015 and Drew in 2016. He also directed episodes of the Stephen King adaptation and J.J. Abrams produced 11.22.63.

He is currently directing and Executive Producing "Liar" for ITV and AMC 2016/17. He is set to direct a J.R.R. Tolkien biopic entitled ‘Middle Earth.'

Selected filmography

  • Doctors
  • Various episodes (2000–2001)
  • Holby City
  • Various episodes (2002–2005)
  • Doctor Who
  • "The Impossible Planet" (2006)
  • "The Satan Pit" (2006)
  • "Daleks in Manhattan" (2007)
  • "Evolution of the Daleks" (2007)
  • "Voyage of the Damned" (2007)
  • "Partners in Crime" (2008)
  • "Planet of the Dead" (2009)
  • Torchwood
  • "Cyberwoman" (2006)
  • "They Keep Killing Suzie" (2006)
  • Bonekickers
  • "Army of God" (2008)
  • "Warriors" (2008)
  • "The Cradle of Civilisation" (2008)
  • Hustle
  • "Return of the Prodigal" (2009)
  • "New Recruits" (2009)
  • Silent Witness
  • The Prodigal (2011)
  • United (2011)
  • Broadchurch (2013)
  • 5 episodes
  • The Great Train Robbery (2013)
  • From There to Here (2014)
  • Code of a Killer (2014)
  • 2 episodes
  • Gracepoint (2014)
  • "Episode One"
  • "Episode Two"
  • "Episode Four"
  • "Episode Five"
  • Drew (2016)
  • 11.22.63 (2015)
  • "Episode Three"
  • "Episode Four"

    • References

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