Directing

Michael Simpson

Place of birth

UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

20 titles

Michael Simpson was a British television director.

Known for

Behind the camera

Miss Julie poster
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Complex battle of the sexes and classes as a neurotic rich woman has an affair with her father's calculating valet.

Miss Julie

1987

Marriage poster
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Councillor Podkolyossin has called on the services of Madame Fyokla, the matchmaker - decision he is already beginning to regret. Against his better judgment he finds himself competing for the hand of Miss Agafya.

Marriage

1981

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Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

Macbeth

1966

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Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

Macbeth

1966

The Other Woman poster
3.0

A lesbian artist creates a love triangle when she moves in with a closeted teenage girl and the man in her pre-arranged heterosexual marriage.

The Other Woman

1976

Paying Guests (Part 2) poster
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Miss Howard's exhibition of water-colours at the Green Salon falters but then takes off. The season at 'Wentworth' is now drawing to a close, peoples' plans for the winter unfold. Florence, for the first time in her life, refuses to go off with her selfish old father. Miss Howard has some momentous news, and the Colonel must make a very brisk about-turn.

Paying Guests (Part 2)

1986

Journey's End poster
8.0

A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play.

Journey's End

1988

She Loves Me poster
8.8

BBC production of the 1963 Broadway musical which was based on Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 film "The Shop Around The Corner."

She Loves Me

1979

Paying Guests (Part 1) poster
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Spend some time in the company of the guests at 'Wentworth' - all taking the waters except for the Colonel and Miss Howard, who has some leisure for the beginnings of a late romance. Gossip, bicycle rides, rounds of golf, bridge in the evenings and preparations for the charity concert all make time pass most pleasantly - don't they?

Paying Guests (Part 1)

1986

A Taste of Honey poster
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Feature-length 1984 BBC adaptation of Shelagh Delaney's classic play.

A Taste of Honey

1984

No artwork available
4.5

An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in 1945 (in Russia) and 1946 (in the UK). It is considered to be one of Priestley's best known works for the stage and one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre. The play's success and reputation has been boosted in recent years by a successful revival by English director Stephen Daldry for the National Theatre in 1992. This is a re-edited version of the 1982 BBC TV adaptation, originally serialised in three parts.

An Inspector Calls

1984

Absent Friends poster
7.0

Adaptation of the play by Alan Ayckbourn.

Absent Friends

1985

The Black Madonna poster
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Lou Parker feels very strongly that she and her husband, Ray, are different from the Farrells and the Ackerleys. With them it's all television. But she and Ray have the local library and The Observer. They keep abreast. They're different.

The Black Madonna

1980

Driving Ambition poster
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A bored and frustrated suburban housewife follows her dream of becoming a racing driver

Driving Ambition

1984

Scully's New Year's Eve poster
9.0

Scully invites his mates to gatecrash his mum's New Year's Eve party.

Scully's New Year's Eve

1978

The Fishing Party poster
8.5

Three miners plan a weekend fishing.

The Fishing Party

1972

I Want to Be Like You poster
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Brian idolises his older brother Steve, who has left school and joined the army. The two brothers go for an evening out and end up in a local coffee shop, where Steve's faults become painfully obvious to Brian

I Want to Be Like You

1976

Break In poster
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Written by Willy Russell, Break In tells the story of three boys who break in to their school during the holidays to retrieve a confiscated football.

Break In

1975

The Misanthrope poster
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One man's defiant stand against the hypocrisy of polite society is the theme of Molière's comic masterpiece. Ian Holm stars in this film set in Paris in the 1920s.

The Misanthrope

1980

The Medium poster
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"Honestly, mam, it's all a load of rubbish. I mean, I read me horoscope and things like that, for a joke... but this." A group of women gather to have their fortunes told by a drunken clairvoyant.

The Medium

1973