Michael Hayes

Directing

Michael Hayes

Born 1929-04-03 · Barking, Essex, UK

Michael Hayes (3 April 1929 – 16 September 2014) was a British television director and newsreader. As a young man, Hayes was an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Later, he worked for the BBC in various roles, beginning as a studio manager for the World Service and working his way up to directing for television. His most notable work was directing the hugely successful BBC drama adaptations of various Shakespeare plays, collectively entitled An Age of Kings, in 1960. Amongst Hayes's other credits, he directed three Doctor Who serials starring Tom Baker, including 1979's City of Death and also helmed the BBC's 1961 adaptation of A for Andromeda.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Executioner poster
NR

Follows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

The Executioner

1966

Charlie poster
NR

James has come in search of his feckless older brother, Charlie, to ask him to come home and settle down.

Charlie

1968

Nice poster
7.4

A naïve and "nice" West Indian's descent into postcolonial cynicism is depicted in a twenty minute monologue from writer Farrukh Dhondy.

Nice

1984

Mill Hill poster
4.0

A dentist discovers his wife on the verge of having an affair with another man - a rival dentist

Mill Hill

1972

The Wars of the Roses poster
8.7

A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The Wars of the Roses

1965

A Flea in Her Ear poster
6.5

Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.

A Flea in Her Ear

1968

No artwork available
9.0

Set in Leningrad. Follows the lives of three young Russians from the terror of the German siege of Leningrad through the uncertainty of the postwar years to the space age.

The Promise

1969

Doctor Who: City of Death poster
9.0

While taking in the sights of Paris in 1979, the Doctor and Romana sense that someone is tampering with time. Who is the mysterious Count Scarlioni? Why does he seem to have counterparts scattered through time? And just how many copies of the Mona Lisa did Leonardo da Vinci paint?

Doctor Who: City of Death

1979

Infidelity Took Place poster
NR

A happily married couple divorce for tax purposes, but their lawyer, not knowing the real reason for their divorce, falls in love with the wife.

Infidelity Took Place

1968

Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor poster
5.5

The final segment of the Key to Time is at the heart of a devastating war between neighbouring planets Atrios and Zeos. The Fourth Doctor discovers that a sinister entity is manipulating events and the cost of obtaining the final segment may be more personal than he imagined.

Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor

1979

Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara poster
7.2

Finding the fourth segment of the Key to Time was simple enough, but holding onto it may be another matter. The Doctor and Romana find themselves embroiled in the political games of the planet Tara, where doubles, android or otherwise, complicate the coronation of Prince Reynart.

Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara

1978

The Mikado poster
9.0

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month's time, Ko-Ko finds a suitable victim in Nanki-Poo, who is distraught over his unrequited love for the maiden Yum-Yum. Nanki-Poo agrees to sacrifice his life if he is allowed to spend his remaining days with Yum-Yum, who is betrothed to Ko-Ko.

The Mikado

1973

Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred poster
10.0

Two incidents in a young actress's life have their effect on each other - a dinner date with a film producer, and attendance at the funeral of a favourite uncle.

Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred

1970

Merry Christmas Doctor Who poster
10.0

The Doctor, Romana and K9 drink in the TARDIS in celebration of Christmas.

Merry Christmas Doctor Who

1978

The Table poster
NR

A couple row at the breakfast table about the wife's apparent infidelity.

The Table

1973

The Table poster
NR

A couple row at the breakfast table about the wife's apparent infidelity.

The Table

1973

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights poster
NR

BBC adaptation of The Arabian Nights

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

1981

No artwork available
NR

Opera version of the classic Dickens tale.

A Christmas Carol

1980