Derek Williams
Directing
Born: 1929-08-20 · Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
Died: 2021-08-02
Biography
Derek Williams (20 August 1929 – 2 August 2021) was a British documentary film director and writer who was active from the 1950s until 1990. His films received four British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTAs) and five Oscar nominations (four as director and writer and one as writer only) all in the short documentary classification. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, he was educated at Newcastle Royal Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His first film, Hadrian's Wall, was m
🎬 Movies (17)
Planet Water
1979
Director
The Shetland Experience
1977
Director
Sea Area Forties
1975
Script
Alaska: The Great Land
1971
Script
The Shadow of Progress
1970
Director
Algerian Pipeline
1967
Director
Health of a City
1965
Director
Turkey: The Bridge
1965
Director
At the Villa Rosa
1964
Director
Carnival
1963
Director
Escape to Gozo
1963
Director
Kidnapped
1963
Director
Treasure in Malta
1963
Director
By Jiminy
1963
Director
Hunted in Holland
1961
Director
Foothold on Antarctica
1957
Narrator
There Was a Door
1957
Director