Michael Darlow was born on 13 June 1934 and is a British television producer, director and writer.
21 Facts About Michael Darlow
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Michael Darlow's works include The World At War episode Genocide, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Johnny Cash at San Quentin and Bomber Harris.
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Michael Darlow is a Fellow of the Royal Television Society.
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Michael Darlow was born in Wolverhampton, where his father was the deputy town clerk and his mother was a socialist and feminist organizer.
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When Michael Darlow was a child, his father became town clerk of West Bromwich.
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Michael Darlow appeared on television for the first time on New Year's Day 1959, in a drama on BBC1.
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Michael Darlow went on to act in several TV programs during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Michael Darlow wrote and directed a documentary film entitled All These People about the history of the city of Reading and then another, The Holloway Road, about that thoroughfare in London.
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Michael Darlow worked as a researcher on a documentary history of the trade-union movement.
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Michael Darlow went on to work at Granada TV, where he was the associate producer of Ten Days that Shook the World, a 1967 documentary marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
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Michael Darlow served as director and producer on all three parts.
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Michael Darlow went on to direct Johnny Cash at San Quentin, a 1969 documentary.
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Michael Darlow directed a stage production of Look Back in Anger at the Derby Playhouse.
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Michael Darlow directed The Sun is God, a 1974 Thames Television production.
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Michael Darlow directed two episodes of the comprehensive 26-part documentary series The World at War, narrated by Laurence Olivier and produced by Thames Television.
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Michael Darlow's episodes covered the occupation of the Netherlands and the Holocaust.
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Michael Darlow shot over six hours of film, and since there was too much to include in a single episode of The World at War, much of the extra footage was used for two other projects.
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One of them was Secretary to Hitler, a 23-minute documentary short in which Michael Darlow interviewed Hitler's private secretary Traudl Junge.
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Michael Darlow went on to make the TV movie Hazlitt in Love.
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Michael Darlow directed the six-part TV miniseries Merlin of the Crystal Cave, the TV movies Bomber Harris and A Bright New Hope for Mankind, and programs for the TV documentary series The Works and Forty Minutes.
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Michael Darlow was nominated for BAFTA Awards for Best Single Play, for Best Factual Programme, and for Best Single Drama.