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8 March 2010 11:26 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

TV director whose work ranged from Shakespeare to soap opera

David Giles might be termed a journey- man director of tele- vision drama. He never sought to be the architect of great TV projects such as the BBC's The Forsyte Saga in 1967 or the 13-part The First Churchills two years later, in each case written and masterminded by Donald Wilson, but he saw at least two-thirds of their individual instalments on to the screen. Nor was he associated with one particular author, as the producer Kenith Trodd, for example, was with Dennis Potter, though Giles, who has died aged 83, directed all seven episodes of The Mayor of Casterbridge as dramatised by Potter for the BBC in 1978.

Giles's gift was to make the final outcome of everyone's work – the pictures, the action, the words – all that they had hoped for, whether it was soap opera or Shakespeare. He had spells on two soaps, »

- Philip Purser

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