Robert Young

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Robert William Young born 16 March 1933 is a British television and film director Young was born in Cheltenham and in the 1980s and early 1990s established himself as a leading director of British TV drama In the 1970s he directed Vampire Circus 1972 and Hammer House of Horror He directed several episodes of Minder and Bergerac in the early 1980s and the acclaimed TV serial The Mad Death which centred around a rabies outbreak Perhaps his best remembered television work was on Robin of Sherwood for which he directed many of the bestregarded episodes Young moved towards black comedy in the early 1990s directing Jeeves and Wooster based on the stories written by PG Wodehouse and GBH for which he was nominated for a BATA award It was partly on the strength of GBH that he was assigned to direct Fierce Creatures John Cleeses 1997 followup to A Fish Called Wanda which featured many of the same cast as GBH However the production ran into problems and Fred Schepisi was brought in to finalise the movie Young did however direct Splitting Heirs which starred Cleese and Eric Idle Young has continued to work on television drama since then Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Young director licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia