Beryl Vertue

Beryl Vertue CBE
Born	Beryl Frances Vertue 1931 (age 85–86)
Nationality	British
Occupation	Television producer, media executive, former agent
Works	Directed Men Behaving Badly
Children	2, including Sue Vertue

Beryl Frances Vertue OBE (born 1931) is an English television producer, media executive, and former agent. She is founder and chairwoman of the independent television production company Hartswood Films.

A former school friend of comedy writer Alan Simpson, Vertue was invited to join what was soon to become "Associated London Scripts" as a secretary-cum-girl Friday. She later found that she had become an agent, almost by stealth at ALS, representing comedy writers Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes, Johnny Speight, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson and Terry Nation (for whom she famously negotiated to partially keep his rights to his Dalek creation for Doctor Who). She also represented comedians Tony Hancock (until 1961) and Frankie Howerd.

In 1967 she joined the Stigwood Organisation, which had absorbed ALS, specialising in selling British television formats to America. These successes included Steptoe and Son, which became in the US Sanford and Son, and Til Death Us Do Part, which was turned into All in the Family. In 1975 she was a co-executive producer of the cinema version of The Who's rock opera Tommy, directed by Ken Russell and starring Roger Daltrey.

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