Barney Platts-Mills

Barney Platts-Mills
Born	1944 (age 72–73) Colchester, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Film director

Barney Platts-Mills is a British film director, best known for his award-winning films, Bronco Bullfrog and Private Road.

Platts-Mills was born in 1944 in Colchester, England, son of Labour MP and barrister John Platts-Mills, and was educated at University College School, London, and at Bryanston School, Blandford, Dorset.

He entered the film industry in 1960, as 3rd assistant editor at Shepperton Studios and worked on Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, Lewis Gilbert's The Greengage Summer and John Schlesinger's A Kind of Loving among other films, for editors including Peter R. Hunt and Reggie Beck. Platts-Mills worked as editor for Anglia TV's Survival and Granada TV's World in Action.

In 1966, he established Maya Films with James Scott, Adam Barker-Mill and Andrew St. John. Platts-Mills produced and edited Love's Presentation, a 30-minute documentary on the work of David Hockney, directed by James Scott, and also produced and directed St Christopher, a 45-minute documentary on children in the care of St Christopher's School, Bristol, and the Camphill Village Trust, Botton, Yorkshire. He wrote, produced and directed The War, a cinema short, starring Colin Welland and Eric Burdon (15 minutes, B&W 35 mm Panavision). He wrote and directed Everybody's an Actor, Shakespeare Said, a documentary on the work of Joan Littlewood, with young people in the East End of London (35 minutes, 16 mm Eastmancolor).

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