David Jones (director)
| David Jones | |
|---|---|
| Born |
David Hugh Jones February 19, 1934 Poole, Dorset |
| Died | September 19, 2008 (aged 74) Rockport, Maine, United States |
| Alma mater |
Christ's College, Cambridge Yale School of Drama |
| Occupation | Film director, television director, theater director |
| Spouse(s) |
Sheila Allen Joyce Tenneson |
| Children | Jesse and Joe |
David Hugh Jones (19 February 1934 – 19 September 2008) was an English stage, television, and film director.
Jones was born in Poole, Dorset, the son of John David Jones and his wife Gwendolen Agnes Langworthy (Ricketts), and was educated at Taunton School and Christ's College, Cambridge. Originally a television director, he first worked for BBC producer Huw Wheldon working on the Monitor arts television series from 1958 to 1964. His first London stage production was a triple-bill of T. S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes, W. B. Yeats's Purgatory and Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape at the Mermaid Theatre in 1961.
He directed his first production for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Arts Theatre in 1962, Boris Vian's The Empire Builder, and two years later accepted the administrative post of RSC Artistic Controller, helping to plan programmes of new plays and European classics at the Aldwych Theatre in London. He also took over responsibility for running the Aldwych from 1969 to 1972, and again in 1975–77. During this period he championed the plays of David Mercer and Maxim Gorky.
For BBC television he directed Ice Age, The Beaux Stratagem and Langrishe, Go Down in 1978. He also produced Play of the Month (1977–79).
He left the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1979, taking up an appointment as an artistic director at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and to found a resident theatre company modelled on the RSC (Beauman 344).
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