Angela Pope (born in 1945) is a British television and film director, documentarist, producer and screenwriter.

Life and career

Born in

Walton-on-Thames Walton-on-Thames, locally known as Walton, is a market town on the south bank of the Thames in the Elmbridge borough of Surrey, England. Walton forms part of the Greater London built-up area, within the KT postcode and is served by a wide ...

, Pope graduated in political sciences at the

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

. She started her career as a documentarist for BBC, getting critical acclaim as well as raising controversies with '' Yesterday's Men'' (1971), which portrayed some members of the Wilson Cabinet in the aftermath of the Labour Party defeat at

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. After numerous documentaries, including the controversial ''The Best Days?'' (1977), which criticized the comprehensive school system using the Faraday High School in

Ealing Ealing () is a district in West London, England, west of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Ealing. Ealing is the administrative centre of the borough and is identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan. Ealing was hi ...

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, she made her narrative film debut in 1986 with the television film ''Night Shift'', based on her own play. In 1987 Pope got critical acclaim with the

Screen Two ''Screen Two'' was a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1985 to 1998 (not to be confused with a run of films shown on BBC2 under the billing ''Screen 2'' between April 1977 and March ...

AIDS-themed television film ''Sweet As You Are'', starring

Liam Neeson William John Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland. He has received several accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and two Tony Awards. In 2020, he was placed 7th on ''The I ...

and

Miranda Richardson Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English actress. She made her film debut playing Ruth Ellis in '' Dance with a Stranger'' (1985) and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for '' Damage'' (1992) and '' Tom & Viv'' (1994). ...

, which was awarded best film from the Royal Television Society. Her feature film debut '' Captives'' premiered out of competition at the 1994 edition of the

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, and was followed two years later by the family drama '' Hollow Reed''.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pope, Angela 1945 births Living people People from Walton-on-Thames British film directors British television directors British screenwriters British women film directors British women television directors