Biographie
Huw Wheldon
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- Date de décès
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- Huge Welshman
- Huw Wheldon est né le 7 mai 1916 au Royaume-Uni. Il était producteur et réalisateur. Il est connu pour Epic Battles (1958), Men in Battle (1956) et Portraits of Power (1957). Il est mort le 14 mars 1986 à Surrey, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni.
- Television Publicity Officer
- There is an RTS (Royal Television Society) Huw Wheldon Lecture held in his honour annually.
- Served as a paratrooper in the British army during WWII and took part in the D-Day invasion in 1944. He was also in the unit that liberated the Nazi death camp at Belsen, a subject he never talked about.
- Was cast in a major cameo in Chariots Of Fire but had to pull out because he did not have a Equity card.
- To the extent that programs are manufactured and not made, to the extent that programs are even under the risk of being manufactured and not made, and to the extent that the stereotype is only a manufacture in disguise, the industry has failed. The entire industry exists only to make hand-make programs. - Royal Television Society Convention, Cambridge, 1970
- On public service broadcasting: To make the good popular, and the popular good.
- The crime is not to avoid failure. The crime is not to give triumph a chance.
- Ignore the obvious at your peril.
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