Directing

Colin Gregg

Born

1947-01-10 (79)

Place of birth

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

15 titles

Colin Gregg is a British film and television director, editor and photographer. His work includes the films To the Lighthouse (1983), Lamb (1985), and We Think the World of You (1988). He has also directed episodes of television series including Kavanagh QC and Inspector Morse, both starring John Thaw, and the BBC's Screen Two. In addition, Gregg has directed adverts, including the award winning commercial for the British drink Blackcurrant Tango.

Known for

We Think the World of You poster
6.4

An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets out of prison, he has to face difficulties at home. Added to this, is the fact that he may have to give up Evie to Frank.

We Think the World of You

1988

Drowning in the Shallow End poster
7.0

Nothing seems to go right for Colin, no matter how he tries. No one is offering him writing work, and his marriage is disintegrating. Why can't he be smooth and confident as he imagines other men to be?

Drowning in the Shallow End

1990

Lamb poster
5.7

Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together. With the police on their tail and the money running out however, Lamb is forced to make some terrible decisions.

Lamb

1986

Remembrance poster
4.5

A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, hitting Plymouth's notorious Union Street district, with violent results.

Remembrance

1982

The Guilty poster
3.0

Michael Kitchen stars in this two-part television thriller as Steven Vey, a successful London barrister whose seemingly perfect life takes a devastating turn when a fleeting encounter with his secretary spawns a rape charge. Meanwhile, in a parallel tale, ex-convict Eddy Doyle discovers the man who raised him is not his real father. Doyle searches for his biological dad -- but winds up knee-deep in trouble. English

The Guilty

1992

To the Lighthouse poster
5.2

A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay scolds everybody, while Mrs. Ramsay is the linchpin in keeping the family together. Aunt Lily paints, and the family talk about sailing to the lighthouse, but the trip is always postponed.

To the Lighthouse

1983

Behind the camera

We Think the World of You poster
6.4

An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets out of prison, he has to face difficulties at home. Added to this, is the fact that he may have to give up Evie to Frank.

We Think the World of You

1988

Drowning in the Shallow End poster
7.0

Nothing seems to go right for Colin, no matter how he tries. No one is offering him writing work, and his marriage is disintegrating. Why can't he be smooth and confident as he imagines other men to be?

Drowning in the Shallow End

1990

Lamb poster
5.7

Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together. With the police on their tail and the money running out however, Lamb is forced to make some terrible decisions.

Lamb

1986

Remembrance poster
4.5

A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, hitting Plymouth's notorious Union Street district, with violent results.

Remembrance

1982

Remembrance poster
4.5

A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, hitting Plymouth's notorious Union Street district, with violent results.

Remembrance

1982

The Guilty poster
3.0

Michael Kitchen stars in this two-part television thriller as Steven Vey, a successful London barrister whose seemingly perfect life takes a devastating turn when a fleeting encounter with his secretary spawns a rape charge. Meanwhile, in a parallel tale, ex-convict Eddy Doyle discovers the man who raised him is not his real father. Doyle searches for his biological dad -- but winds up knee-deep in trouble. English

The Guilty

1992

To the Lighthouse poster
5.2

A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay scolds everybody, while Mrs. Ramsay is the linchpin in keeping the family together. Aunt Lily paints, and the family talk about sailing to the lighthouse, but the trip is always postponed.

To the Lighthouse

1983

The Trespasser poster
8.0

Adapted from the D. H. Lawrence novel this tells the romantic story of Siegmund and Helena. Siegmund, an orchestral violinist who is married with three children, has tutored Helena for several years and they've fallen in love but he will not leave his wife or consummate their passion physically. Helena arranges for them to go on an idyllic holiday to the Isle of Wight, hoping that will convince Siegmund to break away from his marriage and they can be together.

The Trespasser

1981

No artwork available
10.0

A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when one of their number is found dead, leading to the question - were they murdered or did they commit suicide?

A Statement of Affairs

1993

Hard Travelling poster
NR

Jessica's promising debut as a young artist is shattered by a sudden and violent death. She escapes into a restless succession of journeys whose encounters along the way bring humour, some comfort, but also danger.

Hard Travelling

1986

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Flying Man

1972

No artwork available
7.0

An investigation of a family's dilemma when the 18 year old son, trained by his ambitious father for the local wrestling championships, receives his call up papers for WWI.

Begging the Ring

1978

No artwork available
7.0

An investigation of a family's dilemma when the 18 year old son, trained by his ambitious father for the local wrestling championships, receives his call up papers for WWI.

Begging the Ring

1978

No artwork available
NR

This is a film portrait in which the words are mostly Peter Hannaford's, an eighty-year-old Dartmoor smallholder and cattle doctor, living with his first cousin, Ruby French. The last of his kind, he talks of toads and tractors, mixing common sense with superstition, showing how Dartmoor and its people have shaped his life.

Peter and Ruby

1973

No artwork available
NR

This is a film portrait in which the words are mostly Peter Hannaford's, an eighty-year-old Dartmoor smallholder and cattle doctor, living with his first cousin, Ruby French. The last of his kind, he talks of toads and tractors, mixing common sense with superstition, showing how Dartmoor and its people have shaped his life.

Peter and Ruby

1973