Name Peter Duffell | Role Film director | |
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Books Playing Piano in a Brothel - M E M O I R S O F A F I L M D I R E C T O R Awards British Academy Television Award for Best Single Play Movies The House That Dripped, England Made Me, King of the Wind, Inside Out, Company of Fools Similar People Chloe Franks, John Bryans, Nyree Dawn Porter, Joanna Dunham, John Bennett | ||
PETER DUFFELL FILMS
Peter Duffell (born 1937) is a British film and television director and screenwriter, born in Canterbury, England.
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Veteran British actor Christopher Lee called Duffell Britain's "most under-rated director."
Biography
Duffell began his career as a director with episodes of the television series Scotland Yard and the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series of second features for the cinema. He directed episodes of The Avengers, Man in a Suitcase and Strange Report.
Based on his television work Milton Subotsky of Amicus Productions selected him to direct The House That Dripped Blood (1970) though he turned down other Amican films because he did not want to be typecast as a horror director.
In 1973 he wrote and directed England Made Me but continued directing English television shows.