Production

Peter Luke

Known for

Production

Credits

21 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Devil a Monk Would Be poster
NR

A community of monks decides to solve its financial predicament through the sale of a potent cure for rheumatism made from rare herbs and one hundred per cent proof alcohol.

The Devil a Monk Would Be

1967

No artwork available
NR

The uneasy relationship between elderly couple Thora Hird and Ron Moody and a cheerful stranger who moves in with them (Ronald Lacey). Written by Richard Harris (not the actor, but the future creator of Man in a Suitcase

Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!

1966

The Executioner poster
NR

Follows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

The Executioner

1966

Hamlet at Elsinore poster
8.0

The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. An historic BBC production taped on location in and around Kronborg castle in Elsinore (Denmark), in which the play is set.

Hamlet at Elsinore

1964

Macready's Gala poster
7.0

The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.

Macready's Gala

1966

Lee Oswald: Assassin poster
NR

The life of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who shot President John F. Kennedy, as reported to the Warren Commission enquiry into the circumstances of the assassination.

Lee Oswald: Assassin

1966

Cock, Hen and Courting Pit poster
7.0

A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later.

Cock, Hen and Courting Pit

1966

A Passage to India poster
8.0

The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month strand, adapted by Santha Ramu Rau and John Maynard, and directed by Waris Hussein.

A Passage to India

1965

No artwork available
7.0

The story begins with the death of a cat. For Mrs Everton, the owner, it climaxes four months of terror during which she has been paying two young brothers £1 a week to keep them from carrying out their threats against her two cats.Although Mrs Everton is aware that the two boys aren't responsible for the cat's death, she nevertheless sets out to wreak revenge.

A Game, Like, Only a Game

1966

A Man on Her Back poster
7.0

John is an aspiring composer and pianist at a club and Mary is a single girl that he meets there. When friendship turns to romance, John has to contend with Colin, a charming ladies' man who turns to Mary in times of trouble.

A Man on Her Back

1966

The Big Man Coughed and Died poster
10.0

Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.

The Big Man Coughed and Died

1966

No artwork available
8.0

When a bossy do-gooder becomes homeless, she is passed from home to home.

A Cheery Soul

1966

No artwork available
7.0

A lonely spinster has her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for a building scheme, with tragic consequences.

A Walk in the Sea

1966

Pity About the Abbey poster
9.0

Satirical play in which businessmen want to destroy Westminster Abbey to make way for a bypass.

Pity About the Abbey

1965

No artwork available
NR

BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.

The Life of Galileo

1964

Bloomsday poster
NR

One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.

Bloomsday

1964

In Camera poster
5.6

A 1964 BBC adaptation of Sartre's "No Exit."

In Camera

1964

Calf Love poster
7.0

A young English exchange student staying with a German family falls for the daughters

Calf Love

1966

The Connoisseur poster
10.0

George Stoupe, successful housemaster at the public school, has an eye to the main chance against his retirement. He chooses the boys for his house if their parents are rich and likely to help him in his profitable art-dealing sideline. Trouble threatens when the head boy of the house tries to expose some of the mal-practices amomg the boys.

The Connoisseur

1966

Silent Song poster
9.0

Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.

Silent Song

1966

The Big Breaker poster
10.0

A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.

The Big Breaker

1964