Barney Platts-Mills was a British film director, best known for his award-winning films, Bronco Bullfrog and Private Road.
18 Facts About Barney Platts-Mills
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Barney Platts-Mills entered the film industry in 1960, as 3rd assistant editor at Shepperton Studios and worked on Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, Lewis Gilbert's The Greengage Summer and John Schlesinger's A Kind of Loving among other films, for editors including Peter R Hunt and Reggie Beck.
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Barney Platts-Mills worked as editor for Anglia TV's Survival and Granada TV's World in Action.
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Barney Platts-Mills produced and edited Love's Presentation, a 30-minute documentary on the work of David Hockney, directed by James Scott, and produced and directed St Christopher, a 45-minute documentary on children in the care of St Christopher's School, Bristol, and the Camphill Village Trust, Botton, Yorkshire.
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Barney Platts-Mills wrote, produced and directed The War, a cinema short, starring Colin Welland and Eric Burdon.
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Barney Platts-Mills wrote and directed Everybody's an Actor, Shakespeare Said, a documentary on the work of Joan Littlewood, with young people in the East End of London.
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In 1972, Barney Platts-Mills was made a Governor and Honorary Life Member of the British Film Institute and Director of the Prodigal Trust, Inner London School's video project.
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In 1983, Barney Platts-Mills wrote the screenplay for Ebb Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson, to be filmed for Film Four in Sri Lanka starring Harry Dean Stanton and Christopher Lee.
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In 1989, Barney Platts-Mills wrote and directed Blasphemy for Channel Four's Dispatches.
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Barney Platts-Mills edited John Steele's The Bird That Never Flew, an autobiography of a prison trouble-maker published by Sinclair-Stevenson in 1992.
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Barney Platts-Mills was advisor to the development of Wornington Green Residents' Association Video Project for disadvantaged youth in 1993, and in 1994 he set up and supervised the first year of the North Kensington Video Drama Project, including work for the Metropolitan Police Scam scheme and the Youth Enterprise Scheme.
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In 1999, Barney Platts-Mills met Tunde Olayinka and acted as adviser to The Alpha Male, Olayinka's first film.
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Barney Platts-Mills went to Morocco in 2000 and lived for a year on a farm near Larache, writing the screenplay for Lovesways.
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Barney Platts-Mills built a house in Mejlaou near Assilah in 2004 and wrote the screenplay for Zohra: A Moroccan Fairytale.
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Barney Platts-Mills' films were screened in retrospectives at the Edinburgh Film Festival, Gijion Film Festival, BAFICI, Copenhagen Film Festival and the opening night Premiere at the East End Film Festival.
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Barney Platts-Mills joined the film production company Miraj Films in 2010 as a producer and completed the production of Zohra: A Moroccan Fairytale, his love poem to Morocco and his comeback after 30 years, which had its world premiere at the 40th International Rotterdam Film Festival.
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Barney Platts-Mills is credited with founding the independent production company, Peabody Productions.
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Barney Platts-Mills died on 5 October 2021, at the age of 76.