Sydney Newman

Known for CreatorBorn 1917-04-01Died 1997-10-30Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sydney Cecil Newman, OC (April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. After his return to Canada in 1970, Newman was appointed Acting Director of the Broadcast Programs Branch for the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) and then head of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He also occupied senior positions at the Canadian Film Development Corporation and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and acted as an advisor to the Secretary of State. During his time in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, he worked first with the Associated British Corporation (ABC, now Thames Television), before moving across to the BBC in 1962, holding the role of Head of Drama with both organisations. During this phase of his career, he was responsible for initiating two hugely popular television programmes, the spy-fi series The Avengers and the science-fiction series Doctor Who, as well as overseeing the production of groundbreaking social realist drama series such as Armchair Theatre and The Wednesday Play. The Museum of Broadcast Communications describes Newman as "the most significant agent in the development of British television drama." His obituary in The Guardian declared that "For ten brief but glorious years, Sydney Newman ... was the most important impresario in Britain ... His death marks not just the end of an era but the laying to rest of a whole philosophy of popular art." In Quebec, as commissioner of the NFB, he attracted controversy for his decision to suppress distribution of several politically sensitive films by French Canadian directors. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRead more

Movies & web series

Afternoon of a Nymph

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

Where I Live

I Can Destroy the Sun

Flight Into Danger

The Canadian Howdy Doody Show

Summer Is for Kids

Choral Concert

It's Fun to Sing

Fighting Norway

The Rose Affair

After the Funeral

Hot Summer Night

Doctor Who: Origins

Screaming Jets

Talent Showcase

Passport to Canada

Canada Dances

Fighting Sea-Fleas

Banshees Over Canada

Innes Lloyd: The Producer

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

Creation of the Daleks

The Magical Eye

Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks

Doctor Who

Festival

Doctor Who

The New North

Flight 6

Trans-Canada Express

The Avengers

Adam Adamant Lives!

Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe

Pathfinders to Mars

Target Luna

Grierson

Tea Party

A Night Out

The Scent of Fear

A Capital Plan

Red Runs the Fraser

Pay-Off In Pain

Science in Bloom

Ski Skill

Train Busters

Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour

Montreal by Night