Name Robert Knights | Role Film director | |
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Movies The Dawning, Double Vision, And a Nightingale Sang Nominations British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series, British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama Similar People Gale Hansen, Michael Wearing, Trevor Howard, Jean Simmons, Brian Eastman |
Robert Knights (born 1942 in England) is a British film and television director, perhaps best known for his film The Dawning, about the Irish War of Independence.

He has been nominated for three BAFTA TV Awards and he won the Montréal World Film Festival Jury Prize for The Dawning. Also the International Emmy in New York for 'Porterhouse Blue' (Channel 4) starring David Jason (BAFTA Best Actor Award), and Chistopher Gunning (BAFTA Best Music).

Selected filmography and television credits
Porterhouse Blue (1987) The History Man
References
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