Directing

Derek Williams

Born — Died

1929-08-20 — 2021-08-02

Place of birth

Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

20 titles

Derek Williams (20 August 1929 – 2 August 2021) was a British documentary film director and writer who was active from the 1950s until 1990. His films received four British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTAs) and five Oscar nominations (four as director and writer and one as writer only) all in the short documentary classification. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, he was educated at Newcastle Royal Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His first film, Hadrian's Wall, was made while he was at university and was self-financed. On the basis of this film he was able to enter the film industry as a trainee assistant for World Wide Films. His first commercial film, released …

Known for

Algerian Pipeline poster
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The construction of a pipeline from the Sahara to the Mediterranean Sea.

Algerian Pipeline

1967

No artwork available
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Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, and go to the villa where they overhear two crooks threatening their father. The cooks fool the police to whom the children have gone. They escape and make their way finally to Gozo to see their father's colleague where they all captured. Just before the statue is handed over Jiminy arrives with an army of children who rout the crooks and drive them into the arms of the police. Based on the novel. By Jiminy by David Scott Daniel

Kidnapped

1963

No artwork available
NR

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, and go to the villa where they overhear two crooks threatening their father. The crooks fool the police to whom the children have gone. They escape and make their way finally to Gozo to see their father's colleague where they are all captured. Just before the statue is handed over Jiminy arrives with an army of children who rout the crooks and drive them into the arms of the police. Based on the novel 'By Jiminy' by David Scott Daniel.

Carnival

1963

The Shetland Experience poster
7.2

The environmental measures taken by the oil industry at the Sullom Voe terminal in the Shetlands.

The Shetland Experience

1977

No artwork available
NR

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, and go to the villa where they overhear two crooks threatening their father. The cooks fool the police to whom the children have gone. They escape and make their way finally to Gozo to see their father's colleague where they all captured. Just before the statue is handed over Jiminy arrives with an army of children who rout the crooks and drive them into the arms of the police. Based on the novel. By Jiminy by David Scott Daniel

By Jiminy

1963

No artwork available
NR

A BAFTA award nominated documentary demonstrating the ways in which the oceans and seas are vital to man's survival on Earth, and the dangers which threaten their ecological systems

Planet Water

1979

Film credits

Behind the camera

Algerian Pipeline poster
NR

The construction of a pipeline from the Sahara to the Mediterranean Sea.

Algerian Pipeline

1967

Algerian Pipeline poster
NR

The construction of a pipeline from the Sahara to the Mediterranean Sea.

Algerian Pipeline

1967

No artwork available
NR

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, and go to the villa where they overhear two crooks threatening their father. The cooks fool the police to whom the children have gone. They escape and make their way finally to Gozo to see their father's colleague where they all captured. Just before the statue is handed over Jiminy arrives with an army of children who rout the crooks and drive them into the arms of the police. Based on the novel. By Jiminy by David Scott Daniel

Kidnapped

1963

No artwork available
NR

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, and go to the villa where they overhear two crooks threatening their father. The crooks fool the police to whom the children have gone. They escape and make their way finally to Gozo to see their father's colleague where they are all captured. Just before the statue is handed over Jiminy arrives with an army of children who rout the crooks and drive them into the arms of the police. Based on the novel 'By Jiminy' by David Scott Daniel.

Carnival

1963

The Shetland Experience poster
7.2

The environmental measures taken by the oil industry at the Sullom Voe terminal in the Shetlands.

The Shetland Experience

1977

The Shetland Experience poster
7.2

The environmental measures taken by the oil industry at the Sullom Voe terminal in the Shetlands.

The Shetland Experience

1977

No artwork available
NR

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, and go to the villa where they overhear two crooks threatening their father. The cooks fool the police to whom the children have gone. They escape and make their way finally to Gozo to see their father's colleague where they all captured. Just before the statue is handed over Jiminy arrives with an army of children who rout the crooks and drive them into the arms of the police. Based on the novel. By Jiminy by David Scott Daniel

By Jiminy

1963

No artwork available
NR

A BAFTA award nominated documentary demonstrating the ways in which the oceans and seas are vital to man's survival on Earth, and the dangers which threaten their ecological systems

Planet Water

1979

The Shadow of Progress poster
8.5

Documenting the pollution of natural resources and the misuse of technology.

The Shadow of Progress

1970

The Shadow of Progress poster
8.5

Documenting the pollution of natural resources and the misuse of technology.

The Shadow of Progress

1970

There Was a Door poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

There Was a Door

1957

No artwork available
NR

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, and go to the villa where they overhear two crooks threatening their father. The crooks fool the police to whom the children have gone. They escape and make their way finally to Gozo to see their father's colleague where they all captured. Just before the statue is handed over Jiminy arrives with an army of children who rout the crooks and drive them into the arms of the police.

At the Villa Rosa

1964

Turkey: The Bridge poster
7.5

This travelogue tells the story of Turkey from 200BC, including the attack by the Greeks, Romans, the origination of the first seven religions, the Crusades, the creation of the Turkish State and the modern tourist industry. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Turkey: The Bridge

1965

Foothold on Antarctica poster
6.4

An absorbing record of the advance preparations for the historic first crossing of the Antarctic Continent by Dr. Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary.

Foothold on Antarctica

1957

No artwork available
NR

A look at the work of Glasgow's Medical Officer of Health.

Health of a City

1965

No artwork available
NR

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, and go to the villa where they overhear two crooks threatening their father. The cooks fool the police to whom the children have gone. They escape and make their way finally to Gozo to see their father's colleague where they all captured. Just before the statue is handed over Jiminy arrives with an army of children who rout the crooks and drive them into the arms of the police. Based on the novel. By Jiminy by David Scott Daniel

Escape to Gozo

1963

Treasure in Malta poster
NR

Six episodes relating to a thriller of a hunt after archaeological treasure in Malta, and the thwarting of crooks.

Treasure in Malta

1963

Hunted in Holland poster
7.5

English schoolboy and his Dutch pen friend chase a diamond smuggling gang in Holland.

Hunted in Holland

1961

Hunted in Holland poster
7.5

English schoolboy and his Dutch pen friend chase a diamond smuggling gang in Holland.

Hunted in Holland

1961