Tristram Roger Dymoke Powell'Powell of The Chantry' pedigree, Burke's Peerage website (25 April 1940 – 1 March 2024) was an English television and film director, producer and screenwriter. His credits included '' American Friends'', episodes of series five and

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of ''

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'', and adaptations of the novels '' The Ghost Writer'' and '' Falling''.

Life and career

Tristram Powell was born in

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, the elder son of the novelist

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and Lady Violet Powell (née Pakenham). His godfather was Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, the last squire of

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and a noted biographer. He was educated at

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and

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. 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

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's 2017 short film about his godfather, Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer of

, 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

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married Henry Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort, in 2018. Tristram Powell died of leukaemia on 1 March 2024, at the age of 83.

Filmography

Director

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* 1940 births 2024 deaths People educated at Eton College English television directors People from Oxford English television writers {{tv-director-stub