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|image = Paddy Russell.jpg | |image = Paddy Russell.jpg | ||
|aka = | |aka = | ||
|job title= [[Director]] | |job title = [[Director]] | ||
|time = 1966, 1974-1975, 1977 | |time = 1966, 1974-1975, 1977 | ||
|story = | |story = | ||
|non dwu = ''The Quatermass Experiment'', ''Quatermass II'', ''Quatermass and the Pit'', ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' | |non dwu = ''The Quatermass Experiment'', ''Quatermass II'', ''Quatermass and the Pit'', ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' | ||
|imdb = 0751373 | |imdb = 0751373 | ||
|clip = Special DVD Feature Paddy Russell - filming in deserted London - Invasion of the Dinosaurs | |||
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'''Paddy Russell''' ([[4 July (people)|4 July]] [[1928 (people)|1928]]-[[2 November (people)|2 November]] [[2017 (people)|2017]]<ref>[http://guide.doctorwhonews.net/person.php?code=3410 Doctor Who Guide]</ref>) was a [[television]] [[director]] who worked on episodes with the [[First Doctor|First]], [[Third Doctor|Third]] and [[Fourth Doctor]]s. | '''Paddy Russell''' ([[4 July (people)|4 July]] [[1928 (people)|1928]]-[[2 November (people)|2 November]] [[2017 (people)|2017]]<ref>[http://guide.doctorwhonews.net/person.php?code=3410 Doctor Who Guide]</ref>) was a [[television]] [[director]] who worked on episodes with the [[First Doctor|First]], [[Third Doctor|Third]] and [[Fourth Doctor]]s. | ||
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Russell was not only the first woman to direct a ''Doctor Who'' story, but also, along with [[Julia Smith]], one of the first two women to work as a director for the BBC. | Russell was not only the first woman to direct a ''Doctor Who'' story, but also, along with [[Julia Smith]], one of the first two women to work as a director for the BBC. | ||
== ''Doctor Who'' stories directed == | == ''Doctor Who'' stories directed == | ||
Revision as of 18:56, 27 June 2018
Paddy Russell (4 July 1928-2 November 2017[1]) was a television director who worked on episodes with the First, Third and Fourth Doctors.
In the 1950s, she worked as a BBC production assistant to famed director Rudolph Cartier. She worked on all three Quatermass serials as well as the 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
In 1965, she directed "Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come...?", an episode of Out of the Unknown, a science-fiction series. In 1966, she directed her first Doctor Who story, The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve. Following this, she directed episodes of Pere Goriot, Little Women, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Z-Cars and The Moonstone before returning to Doctor Who with Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Pyramids of Mars and Horror of Fang Rock, in 1974, 1975 and 1977 respectively, to direct the Third and Fourth Doctors.
Russell was not only the first woman to direct a Doctor Who story, but also, along with Julia Smith, one of the first two women to work as a director for the BBC.
