Jeremy Silberston (1 April 1950 – 9 March 2006), was an English film director.

Early life

His father was economist Aubrey Silberston, and his mother, Dorothy, was a founder member of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship. He attended

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. After college, he worked in France on the Disney on Ice show. Returning to England he began to work in television production.

Career

After training at the BBC as a production director in the late 1970s (he was recruited for his ability to speak French) he worked in a range of TV popular drama programmes such as ''Casualty'' and ''

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''. In 1979 he was an assistant floor manager on the BBC's '' Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy''. During the 1980s he was production manager of the ''Nanny'' Series 1 (1980), ''Smiley's People'' (1982), ''

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'' "The Five Doctors" (1983), '' My Cousin Rachel'' (mini TV Series) (1983), ''

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'' (mini TV Series) (1985), two episodes of ''

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'' (1986) and two episodes of ''Casualty'' (1988-1989). He became a good friend of writer

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and they jointly developed ''

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'' (1997) and '' Foyle's War'' (2002). He directed episodes of a wide range of TV popular drama including: *'' Brookside'' (1982). *''

'' (1988) 1 episode. *Two episodes of ''Casualty'': "Accidents Happen" (1989) and "Absolution" (1988). *Episodes of ''Coasting'' (1990). *''

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'' (episodes 3, 4, 11 & 12 of series 1; episodes 7 & 8 of series 2, and episodes 9 & 10 of series 3) (1991–93). *Episodes of ''Castles'' (1995). *12 episodes of ''

'': "Return to Sender" (1993), "A Tangled Web" (1997); "Vacant Possession" (1998), "High Places", "True Confessions", "Saved", "By the Book", "The Scent of Compassion", "Just For The Crack", "Time to Kill", "On the Wagon", "True Lies", and "Better the Devil". *10 episodes of ''

'': "The Killings at Badger's Drift" (1997), "Written in Blood" (1998), "Death of a Hollow Man" (1998), "Death's Shadow" (1999), "Strangler's Wood" (1999), "Dead Man's Eleven" (1999), "Judgement Day" (2000), "Dark Autumn" (2001), "Birds of Prey" (2003). * ''Where the Heart Is'' (2001) 2 episodes. *Eight episodes of '' Foyle's War'' (2002-2006): "The German Woman", "The White Feather", "Eagle Day", "Among the Few", "The Funk Hole", "They Fought In The Fields", "Enemy Fire" and "Bad Blood". *''

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'': ''The Seed of Cunning'' (2005).

Personal life

He was married to Catherine Napier, a correspondent for the

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. He had two sons, Theo and Toby.

Death

He died of a brain tumour after seven months of illness in 2006 aged 55. ''Casualties of War'', an episode of Foyle's War first broadcast in 2006, was dedicated to his memory.

External links

*
Filmography
at the BFI
Profile on tv.comBAFTA ProfileTribute
'' Ariel'', 5 April 2006.
Tribute
''Old Perseans'', 2007. *Silberston on directing Foyles War, Series 1 press ki

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