Directing

Paddy Russell

Born — Died

1928-07-04 — 2017-11-02

Place of birth

Highgate, London, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

11 titles

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…

Known for

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Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel.

Treasure Island

1965

Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars poster
8.6

In a Victorian Gothic mansion, strange things are afoot. The master of the house, away in Egypt, has been replaced by a sinister Egyptian. Cloth-wrapped Mummies roam the grounds, killing people. Beneath a pyramid, the last of the Osirans — Sutekh the Destroyer — waits to be freed, to at long last bring his gift of death to all who live.

Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars

1975

Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs poster
6.8

The Third Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1970s London to find it has been evacuated because dinosaurs have appeared mysteriously. It turns out the dinosaurs are being brought to London via a time machine to further a plan to revert London to a pre-technological level.

Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

1974

Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock poster
7.6

The cursed island of Fang Rock off the south coast of England is a place of rumour and tales of beasts from the sea. Three lighthouse men at the turn of the century face their fears when something comes from the sea to bring death to all it touches.

Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock

1977

Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve poster
7.2

The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572 and the Doctor decides to visit the famous apothecary Charles Preslin. Steven, meanwhile, is befriended by a group of Huguenots from the household of the Protestant Admiral de Coligny. Having rescued a young serving girl, Anne Chaplet, from some pursuing guards, the Huguenots gain their first inkling of a heinous plan being hatched at the command of the Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici.

Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

1966

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Freddy Slater, a public relations man, has the day to end all days.

Slater's Day

1974

Behind the camera

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Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel.

Treasure Island

1965

No artwork available
NR

Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel.

Treasure Island

1965

Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars poster
8.6

In a Victorian Gothic mansion, strange things are afoot. The master of the house, away in Egypt, has been replaced by a sinister Egyptian. Cloth-wrapped Mummies roam the grounds, killing people. Beneath a pyramid, the last of the Osirans — Sutekh the Destroyer — waits to be freed, to at long last bring his gift of death to all who live.

Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars

1975

Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs poster
6.8

The Third Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1970s London to find it has been evacuated because dinosaurs have appeared mysteriously. It turns out the dinosaurs are being brought to London via a time machine to further a plan to revert London to a pre-technological level.

Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

1974

Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock poster
7.6

The cursed island of Fang Rock off the south coast of England is a place of rumour and tales of beasts from the sea. Three lighthouse men at the turn of the century face their fears when something comes from the sea to bring death to all it touches.

Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock

1977

Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve poster
7.2

The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572 and the Doctor decides to visit the famous apothecary Charles Preslin. Steven, meanwhile, is befriended by a group of Huguenots from the household of the Protestant Admiral de Coligny. Having rescued a young serving girl, Anne Chaplet, from some pursuing guards, the Huguenots gain their first inkling of a heinous plan being hatched at the command of the Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici.

Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

1966

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Freddy Slater, a public relations man, has the day to end all days.

Slater's Day

1974

No Such Thing as a Vampire poster
NR

Alexis, the wife of Dr. Cheria, mysteriously falls ill, it's believed by the villagers that she is a victim of a vampire. One night, she awakes screaming with blood running from two marks down her neck.

No Such Thing as a Vampire

2026

The Corpse Can't Play poster
7.8

Ronnie's party is going well, but his mother Alice is waiting for her husband Tom to return from the office to help supervise. The doorbell rings, but instead of Tom it's Simon Potter, a strange little boy who Ronnie dislikes, and who knows some unusual and horrifying variations of children's party games.

The Corpse Can't Play

1968

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At Dublin Airport it's ten minutes to take-off, and Josie is determined to go to London. Her departure is delayed and this gives her irate husband and a nervous priest time to try to make her change her mind.

The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft

1965

Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......? poster
10.0

Henry Wilkes cultivates rare tropical plants as a hobby, with an attention to detail closer to obsession. The length to which he goes to propagate and nurture new hybrids alarms his wife. Is there more going on in the greenhouse than could safely be exhibited at the next Battersea Flower Show?

Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......?

1965