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Derek Williams

Director & actor · born 20 August 1929 · Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK

Derek Williams (20 August 1929 – 2 August 2021) was a British documentary film director and writer who was active from the 1950s until 1990. His films received four British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTAs) and five Oscar nominations (four as director and writer and one as writer only) all in the short documentary classification.

Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, he was educated at Newcastle Royal Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Where to start: Planet Water (1979).

As director 14

As actor 1

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