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 Standard

The Mikado

The Promise

The Wars of the Roses

Detective

The Wars of the Roses

Festival

All Creatures Great and Small

Doctor Who

When the Boat Comes In

Oil Strike North

Nice

Softly, Softly

Skorpion

Barlow

Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara

The Troubleshooters

Z-Cars

Theatre 625

Rooms

The Onedin Line

Maigret

Moonstrike

Sherlock Holmes

Play for Today

A Flea in Her Ear

Prince Regent

Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor

A for Andromeda

The Wednesday Play

An Age of Kings

Churchill's People

Thirty-Minute Theatre

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