John Alexander (director)

John Alexander is a British director of television drama who grew up in the East Durham Coal Field and joined the BBC as a post-graduate trainee. He produced a number of documentaries before directing drama. His works include Quirke,[1] The 7.39, Sense and Sensibility,[2][3][4] Small Island, Exile,[1] One Child[5] and Belgravia.[6]

Small Island won an International Emmy for Best Mini-Series, and Sense and Sensibility won the Magnolia Best Director Prize at the Shanghai International Film Festival. Exile was BAFTA-nominated for Best Director Fiction and One Child was Royal Television Society-nominated for Best Director Fiction.

  1. ^ a b McEwan, Cameron (6 January 2014). "'Quirke' preview". CultBox. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
  2. ^ Monaghan, David. "Multiple Authors: The Making of Sense & Sensibility (BBC, 2007)". Home » JASNA. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
  3. ^ Dove-Viebahn, A. (2023). There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises. Rutgers University Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-1-9788-3613-6. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
  4. ^ Wells, J. (2012). Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 237. ISBN 978-1-4411-4554-3. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
  5. ^ Lewis, J. (2015). Benedict Cumberbatch - The Biography. John Blake. p. 258. ISBN 978-1-78418-332-5. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
  6. ^ McKelvie, Robin (21 March 2020). "How Edinburgh stood in for Belgravia in new Sunday night TV show". The Herald. Retrieved 21 August 2024.