Philip Martin is a British

television director A television director is in charge of the activities involved in making a television program or section of a program. They are generally responsible for decisions about the editorial content and creative style of a program, and ensuring the prod ...

and screenwriter. Martin directed the television drama ''

Hawking Hawking may refer to: People * Stephen Hawking (1942–2018), English theoretical physicist and cosmologist * Hawking (surname), a family name (including a list of other persons with the name) Film * ''Hawking'' (2004 film), about Stephen Ha ...

'' (2004), which was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama; the final installment of the ITV drama ''

Prime Suspect ''Prime Suspect'' is a British police procedural television drama series devised by Lynda La Plante. It stars Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison, one of the first female Detective Chief Inspectors in Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service, who ...

'' (2006), which was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Drama Serial and won Martin the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special; and two episodes of the first series of '' Wallander'' (2008), which won the BAFTA for Best Drama Series and got him another Emmy nomination. He also wrote and directed the

BBC Films BBC Film (formerly BBC Films) is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It was founded on 18 June 1990, and has produced or co-produced some of the most successful British films of recent years, including '' Truly, Madly, Deeply'', '' Alan Pa ...

documentary ''Double Helix: The DNA Years'' (2004), and directed the BBC television drama ''

Einstein and Eddington ''Einstein and Eddington'' is a British single drama produced by Company Pictures and the BBC, in association with HBO. It featured David Tennant as British scientist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, and Andy Serkis as Albert Einstein. This is th ...

'' (2008). In 2009, he directed the ''

Agatha Christie's Poirot ''Poirot'' (also known as ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'') is a British mystery drama television programme that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. David Suchet starred as the eponymous detective, Agatha Christie's fictional Her ...

'' adaptation of ''

Murder on the Orient Express ''Murder on the Orient Express'' is a work of detective fiction by English writer Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934. In the U ...

'',Nissim, Mayer (17 November 2009).
Production starts on 'Orient Express'
. Digital Spy. Retrieved 17 November 2009. which was first broadcast in the United States in July 2010.

Filmography

*''Richard Hillary: A Fighter Pilot's Story'' (2000) *''Double Helix: The DNA Years'' (2004) – documentary *''

'' (2004) *'' Bloodlines'' (2005) *''The Girls Who Came to Stay'' (2006) *'' Prime Suspect: The Final Act'' (2006) *'' Wallander'' (2008) – TV series: 2 episodes *''

'' (2008) *'' Mo'' (2010) *''

'' (2010) – TV series: ''

'' *''

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'' (2012) – TV serial: 2 episodes *''

Japan in a Day Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

'' (2012) *'' The Forger'' (2014) *''

The Crown The Crown is the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, overseas territories, provinces, or states). Legally ill-defined, the term has different ...

'' – TV series: 7 episodes *'' Catherine the Great'' (2019) – TV series: 4 episodes

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