About
British director, producer, and screenwriter whose best-known films include the 1971 movie The Virgin and the Gypsy and 1981's Priest of Love. The former earned him a number of prestigious awards, including a National Board of Review Award for Best Film.
Before Fame
He worked at Stewarts & Lloyds Steel Works in Corby before attending film school. At age nineteen, while filming in Chinwangtao, China, he was imprisoned under suspicion of being a spy.
Trivia
In April 1957, he became the first person ever to show 8mm film on television, doing so on the BBC children's show All Your Own.
Family Life
He married painter Suzy Armstrong in 1967. His daughter Sophie is also a painter.
Associated With
He directed actress Joan Collins in the 1999 comedy The Clandestine Marriage.
