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Verity Lambert

Verity Ann Lambert OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. Lambert began working in television in the 1950s. She began her career as a producer at the BBC by becoming the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who from 1963 until 1965. She left the BBC in 1969 and worked for other television companies, notably having a long association with Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and 1980s. Her many credits as producer include Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder, Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek, Love Soup and Eldorado. She also worked in the film industry for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. From 1985 she ran her own production company, Cinema Verity. She continued to work as a producer until the year she died. Women were rarely television producers in Britain at the beginning of Lambert's career. When she was appointed to Doctor Who in 1963, she was BBC Television's only female drama producer, as well as the youngest. The website of the Museum of Broadcast Communications hails her as "not only one of Britain's leading businesswomen, but possibly the most powerful member of the nation's entertainment industry ... Lambert has served as a symbol of the advances won by women in the media". The British Film Institute's Screenonline website describes Lambert as "one of those producers who can often create a fascinating small screen universe from a slim script and half-a-dozen congenial players." Description above from the Wikipedia article Verity Lambert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Born:
Nov 27, 1935 In Hampstead, London, England, UK
Movie/TV Credits:
16
First Appeared:
In the series Doctor Who Then & Now 1987-01-01
Latest Project:
Series Dr. Forever! 2013-03-11
Known For
Poster of Don't Lose Your Head
Poster of Vision On
Poster of Myth Makers 43: William Hartnell
Poster of Doctor Who Then & Now
Filmography
Series Dr. Forever! Herself 2013-03-11
Movie Vision On (archive footage) 2012-01-23
Movie Don't Lose Your Head Herself (archive footage) 2012-01-28
Movie The 50 Greatest Television Dramas Self 2007-02-03
Movie Over the Edge: The Story of "The Edge of Destruction" Self 2006-01-30
Movie Masters of Sound Self (archive footage) 2006-01-30
Movie Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS Self 2006-01-30
Movie Doctor Who: Origins Self 2006-01-30
Movie Creation of the Daleks Herself 2006-01-31
Movie The Story of Doctor Who 2003-12-30
Movie Remembering 'The Aztecs' Self (in photo) (archive footage) 2002-10-21
Movie Myth Makers 43: William Hartnell 1999-06-02
Movie A Night in with the Girls 1997-03-15
Movie 30 Years in the TARDIS Herself 1993-11-29
Series G.B.H. Unknown 1991-06-06
Series Doctor Who Then & Now Unknown 1987-01-01