Humphrey Burton
Biography
Author, broadcaster, director and producer. First Head of Music and Arts for BBC Television 1965-1967. Resumed the position again from 1975-1981 after an eight year absence in commercial television as a founder-member of London Weekend Television. For his work as a director, he has won four Emmy Awards, two British Academy Awards and as a presenter received the Royal Television Society Silver medal and Sony Gold Award.
Known For
Omnibus
BBC Young Musician
Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein
The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein/Beethoven
Antonio Gaudí
How the BBC Began
Candide
Glenn Gould: Hereafter
Benjamin Britten on Camera
Rodelinda
Die Fledermaus
Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 / Das Lied von der Erde
Falstaff
Elgar
Trouble in Tahiti
Mozart: Requiem
The Story of Pantomime