Giles Foster has been an English television director since 1975, specialising in television dramas. He has also directed in Australia and in Germany (2012-2014). He wrote some television dramas in the 1970s. He is from Bath, Somerset and was educated at Monkton Combe School.

TV directed

Foster was nominated three times for BAFTA awards for ''Silas Marner'' (1985), ''

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'' ('' A Lady of Letters'') (1987), and won Best Single Drama for his film ''

Hotel du Lac ''Hotel du Lac'' is a 1984 Booker Prize-winning novel by English writer Anita Brookner. It centres on Edith Hope, a romance novelist who is staying in a hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva. There she meets other English visitors, including Mr ...

'' (1986). He also directed the television series ''Four Seasons'' (2008) which was rewritten to be set in his home town of Bath.

Selected filmography

*''The Aerodrome'' (1983) — based on a novel by

Rex Warner Rex Warner (9 March 1905 – 24 June 1986) was an English classicist, writer, and translator. He is now probably best remembered for ''The Aerodrome'' (1941).Chris Hopkins, ''English Fiction in the 1930s: Language, Genre, History'' Continuum Inte ...

*'' Dutch Girls'' (1985) *''Silas Marner'' (1985) — based on '' Silas Marner'' by

George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrot ...

*''

'' (1986) — based on ''

'' by

Anita Brookner Anita Brookner (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016) was an English novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She ...

*''

Northanger Abbey ''Northanger Abbey'' () is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels written by Jane Austen. Austen was also influenced by Charlotte Lennox's '' The Female Quixote'' (1752). ''Northanger Abbey'' was completed in 1803, the first of ...

'' (1987) — based on ''

'' by Jane Austen *'' Consuming Passions'' (1988) — based on '' Secrets'' by

Michael Palin Sir Michael Edward Palin (; born 5 May 1943) is an English actor, comedian, writer, television presenter, and public speaker. He was a member of the Monty Python comedy group. Since 1980, he has made a number of travel documentaries. Palin w ...

and

Terry Jones Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020) was a Welsh comedian, director, historian, actor, writer and member of the Monty Python comedy team. After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English, Jones and ...

*'' Tree of Hands'' (1989) — based on ''

The Tree of Hands ''The Tree of Hands'' is a 1984 suspense novel by the author Ruth Rendell. It won the CWA Silver Dagger in 1984, and was short listed for the MWA Edgar Award upon publication in America. The book has been filmed twice. One adaptation featured ...

'' by

Ruth Rendell Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, (; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford.The Oxford Companion ...

*'' Monster Maker'' (1989) — based on a novel by Nicholas Fisk *''The Lilac Bus'' (1990) — based on '' The Lilac Bus'' by

Maeve Binchy Anne Maeve Binchy Snell (28 May 1939Born 1939 as per biography, ''Maeve Binchy'' by Piers Dudgeon, Thomas Dunne Books 2013; (hardcover), pp. 4, 280, 302; (ebook) – 30 July 2012) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, colum ...

*''The Rector's Wife'' (1994) — based on a novel by Joanna Trollope *''

Oliver's Travels ''Oliver's Travels'' is a five-part television serial written by Alan Plater and starring Alan Bates, Sinéad Cusack, Bill Paterson, and Miles Anderson. It first aired in the UK in 1995. Plot Bates plays the titular Oliver (it is never made ...

'' (1995) — based on a novel by

Alan Plater Alan Frederick Plater (15 April 1935 – 25 June 2010) was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s. Career Plater was born in Jarrow, County Durham, although his family ...

*'' Coming Home'' (1998) — based on a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher *''Relative Strangers'' (1999) *''

The Prince and the Pauper ''The Prince and the Pauper'' is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547 ...

'' (2000) — based on ''

'' by Mark Twain *'' Bertie and Elizabeth'' (2002) *'' Summer Solstice'' (2005) — based on a story by Rosamunde Pilcher *'' Starting Over'' (2007) — based on a novel by Robin Pilcher *''Four Seasons'' (2008) — based on a story by Rosamunde Pilcher *''Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love'' (2010) — based on a story by Rosamunde Pilcher *''The Other Wife'' (2012) — based on a story by Rosamunde Pilcher *''Unknown Heart'' (2014) — based on a story by Rosamunde Pilcher

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