Directing

Mike Healey

Known for

Directing

Credits

16 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

In Memoriam, or The Ballad of Reading Gaol poster
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A man in a Liverpool office conjures up the last hours of a condemned prisoner, in this reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s poem, given a non-naturalistic treatment using electronic effects and voiceover narration.

In Memoriam, or The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1979

Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter poster
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A biographical film about Beatrix Potter as a young woman.

Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter

1990

Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter poster
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A biographical film about Beatrix Potter as a young woman.

Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter

1990

Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter poster
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A biographical film about Beatrix Potter as a young woman.

Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter

1990

From the Roots Came the Rapper poster
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Kevin is a daydreamer obsessed with the rock and roll lifestyle of 50s America. Unfortunately for Kevin, he lives in 70s Stockport. Will his ambition to become a DJ like his American idols come to fruition?

From the Roots Came the Rapper

1978

Seawrack poster
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On the shoreline of Lancashire's Lune Estuary, an old tramp is befriended by a young lad who volunteers with the St John's Ambulance.

Seawrack

1978

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate poster
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Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

1984

We Had Some Happy Hours poster
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Prestwich Clough, near Bury, is the setting for a disastrous family cricket match and a picnic that does little to assuage rising tempers.

We Had Some Happy Hours

1981

The Day Dumbfounded Got His Pylon poster
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Rupert Skern's Saturday morning peace is shattered by the arrival of workmen in his garden

The Day Dumbfounded Got His Pylon

1978

Kasper's Last Stand poster
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A TV play by Graeme McCaig set amongst Blackpool's beach entertainers and starring Roy Kinnear

Kasper's Last Stand

1978

Dangerous Ambition poster
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Daniel Massey stars as a priest who faces a crisis when the local community turns against him after he is suspected of molesting a young girl who he befriends on a local housing estate.

Dangerous Ambition

1978

Lamaload poster
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Jane spent her childhood in a remote valley in the Peak District above Macclesfield. Ten years later she returns with her fiancé. Her dramatic rediscovery of Lamaload is the subject of this poignant story.

Lamaload

1981

Somewhere More Central poster
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A TV play by Beryl Bainbridge. Formby. As the family gathers for Grandma's funeral, it seems to Olive that the eccentric old lady they have come to bury is far from dead.

Somewhere More Central

1981

Joggers poster
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When five girls start jogging in Liverpool's Sefton Park they soon encounter predictable male opposition. The result is a comedy that ends with a relay race of Wagnerian proportions. A BBC co-production with the Liverpool Everyman

Joggers

1981

Find Me First poster
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A TV play from Taste of Honey writer Shelagh Delaney. A chance encounter late one night in central Manchester reunites two estranged sisters-but for how long?

Find Me First

1981

Penine Man poster
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In Stalybridge, middle-aged scoutmaster Kenneth "Kim" McGrath begins to crack up under the strain of his personal and domestic frustrations.

Penine Man

1978