Tristram Roger Dymoke Powell
['Powell of The Chantry' pedigree, Burke's Peerage website] (born 25 April 1940) is an English television and film director, producer and screenwriter. His credits include ''
American Friends'', episodes of series
five and
six of ''
Foyle's War
''Foyle's War'' is a British detective drama television series set during and shortly after the Second World War, created by ''Midsomer Murders'' screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz and commissioned by ITV after the long-running series '' ...
'', and adaptations of the novels ''
The Ghost Writer
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''
and ''
Falling
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*Falling (accident)
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People
* Christine Falling (born 1963), American serial killer who murdered six children
Books
* ''Fal ...
''.
Life
Powell was born in
Oxford
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, the elder son of the novelist
Anthony Powell
Anthony Dymoke Powell ( ; 21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work '' A Dance to the Music of Time'', published between 1951 and 1975. It is on the list of longest novels in English.
Powel ...
and Lady
Violet Powell (née Pakenham).
His godfather was
Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer
Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, (2 May 1906 – 12 December 1969) was an English landowner, biographer and historian. He bequeathed his family seat, Felbrigg Hall, to the National Trust.
Early life
Robert Wyndham Cremer was born in Plympton, De ...
, the last squire of
Felbrigg Hall
Felbrigg Hall is a 17th-century English country house near the village of that name in Norfolk. Part of a National Trust property, the unaltered 17th-century house is noted for its Jacobean architecture and fine Georgian interior. Outside i ...
and a noted biographer.
He was educated at
Eton College
Eton College () is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI of England, Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. i ...
and
Trinity College, Oxford
(That which you wish to be secret, tell to nobody)
, named_for = The Holy Trinity
, established =
, sister_college = Churchill College, Cambridge
, president = Dame Hilary Boulding
, location = Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BH
, coordinates ...
.
Tristram Powell's father died in 2000, and he has recounted the story of his conversing with the doctor in attendance, who was also surnamed Powell, about his ancestry. His mother, Lady Violet, died in 2002.
Powell objected to the
National Trust
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's 2017 short film about his godfather, Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer of
Felbrigg Hall
Felbrigg Hall is a 17th-century English country house near the village of that name in Norfolk. Part of a National Trust property, the unaltered 17th-century house is noted for its Jacobean architecture and fine Georgian interior. Outside i ...
, in which the latter's private life as a homosexual was revealed. Powell said that the Trust had made the revelation for "commercial reasons" in a way he considered "exaggerated and mean-spirited".
Powell's daughter
Georgia
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* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
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married
Henry Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort
Henry John FitzRoy Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort (born 22 May 1952), styled Marquess of Worcester between 1984 and 2017, also known as Harry Beaufort or Bunter Beaufort, previously as Bunter Worcester, is an English peer and landowner, with est ...
, in 2018.
Filmography
Director
References
External links
*
1940 births
People educated at Eton College
English television directors
People from Oxford
Living people
English television writers
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