Paddy Russell
Known for
Directing
Born
July 4, 1928
Birthplace
Highgate, London, England, UK
Died
November 2, 2017 (aged 89)
Biography
Patricia "Paddy" Russell (4 July 1928 – 2 November 2017) was a British television director. She was among the earliest female directors at the BBC.
She was the first female floor manager to work for the BBC, her non-gendered credit being a means of avoiding problems with prospective technical crews. Although she appeared in the first two episodes of The Quatermass Experiment (1953), her main role was a production assistant for television director Rudolph Cartier. She worked on the later Quatermass science-fiction serials, as well as the 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the Studio 4 series, she appeared on screen in the Cartier-directed Holocaust drama Docto...
Best known work
Filmography
2026
No Such Thing as a VampireDirector
1983
1980
1979
1978
1978
1977
Doctor Who: Horror of Fang RockDirector
1975
Doctor Who: Pyramids of MarsDirector
1974
Slater's DayProducer
1974
1974
1974
1972
1972
1972
1972
1972
1972
1971
1971
1970
1969
1969
1968
The Corpse Can't PlayDirector
1968









