Michael Hayes

Known for DirectingBorn 1929-04-03Died 2014-09-16Barking, Essex, UK

Michael Hayes (3 April 1929 – 16 September 2014) was a British television director and newsreader. As a young man, Hayes was an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Later, he worked for the BBC in various roles, beginning as a studio manager for the World Service and working his way up to directing for television. His most notable work was directing the hugely successful BBC drama adaptations of various Shakespeare plays, collectively entitled An Age of Kings, in 1960. Amongst Hayes's other credits, he directed three Doctor Who serials starring Tom Baker, including 1979's City of Death and also helmed the BBC's 1961 adaptation of A for Andromeda.Read more

Movies & web series

Merry Christmas Doctor Who

The Sextet

Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred

Take Three Girls

Thirteen Against Fate

The Spies

Doctor Who: City of Death

The Mikado

The Promise

The Wars of the Roses

Detective

The Wars of the Roses

All Creatures Great and Small

Doctor Who

When the Boat Comes In

Oil Strike North

Nice

Skorpion

Softly, Softly

Barlow

Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara

Z-Cars

Theatre 625

Prince Regent

Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor

A for Andromeda

An Age of Kings

The Wednesday Play

Churchill's People

Mill Hill

A Matter of Time

The Humans of Tara

Defining Shadows

Directing Who: Michael Hayes

Paris in the Springtime

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

A Christmas Carol

The Table

Infidelity Took Place

Charlie

The Jazz Age

The Executioner