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Paul Wilmshurst(I)

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Paul Wilmshurst
Paul Wilmshurst is an Emmy-winning, BAFTA-nominated director, specializing in high-end drama, with a special interest in challenging and provocative stories and a background in documentary film-making. Over the years he has directed on hit drama series Jamestown, Indian Summers, Doctor Who, Strike Back, Da Vinci's Demons, Law and Order UK and Silent Witness. He has written and directed award-winning one-off projects Hiroshima and Forgiven, as well as making a variety of documentaries about gambling, politics, psychology, crime and history. He lives in North London with his family, when he is not away working.
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  • Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards

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Hiroshima wins 2006 International Emmy Award for Best Documentary
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Directing on the set of A.D.
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Known for

Alexander Dreymon in The Last Kingdom (2015)
The Last Kingdom
8.5
TV Series
  • Director
Hiroshima (2005)
Hiroshima
7.8
TV Movie
  • Director
  • 2005
Julie Walters, Jemima West, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Amber Rose Revah, and Nikesh Patel in Indian Summers (2015)
Indian Summers
7.3
TV Series
  • Director
Jason Flemyng, Sophie Rundle, Naomi Battrick, Stuart Martin, and Niamh Walsh in Jamestown (2017)
Jamestown
6.9
TV Series
  • Director

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Director

  • After the Rain
    • Pre-production
  • Alexander Dreymon in The Last Kingdom (2015)
    The Last Kingdom
  • Winston Churchill in History (2000)
    History
  • Jamie Bamber, Daniel MacPherson, Warren Brown, Alin Sumarwata, and Varada Sethu in Strike Back (2010)
    Strike Back
  • Jason Flemyng, Sophie Rundle, Naomi Battrick, Stuart Martin, and Niamh Walsh in Jamestown (2017)
    Jamestown
  • Julie Walters, Jemima West, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Amber Rose Revah, and Nikesh Patel in Indian Summers (2015)
    Indian Summers
  • A.D. The Bible Continues (2015)
    A.D. The Bible Continues
  • Bradley Walsh, Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, and Mandip Gill in Doctor Who (2005)
    Doctor Who
  • Da Vinci's Demons (2013)
    Da Vinci's Demons
  • Anna Jobarteh in Combat Kids (2010)
    Combat Kids
  • Jamie Bamber, Ben Daniels, Robert Glenister, Bill Paterson, Bradley Walsh, Harriet Walter, and Freema Agyeman in Law & Order: UK (2009)
    Law & Order: UK
  • Emilia Fox in Silent Witness (1996)
    Silent Witness
  • William Miller in Runaway (2009)
    Runaway
  • Trial & Retribution (1997)
    Trial & Retribution
  • Forgiven (2007)
    Forgiven
    • (directed by)
  • I Shouldn't Be Alive (2005)
    I Shouldn't Be Alive

Producer

  • Investigating Diana: Death in Paris (2022)
    Investigating Diana: Death in Paris
  • The Diana Investigations (2022)
    The Diana Investigations
  • Anna Jobarteh in Combat Kids (2010)
    Combat Kids
  • William Miller in Runaway (2009)
    Runaway
  • I Shouldn't Be Alive (2005)
    I Shouldn't Be Alive
  • Hiroshima (2005)
    Hiroshima
  • Pissed on the Job
  • Dogumentary: Rewind the Summer
  • Frank Skinner on Frank Skinner
  • Secrets & Lines
  • White Tribe (2000)
    White Tribe
  • Diceworld (1999)
    Diceworld
  • A Little Bit of Elvis
  • Inside Out
  • Without Walls (1990)
    Without Walls

Writer

  • William Miller in Runaway (2009)
    Runaway
  • Forgiven (2007)
    Forgiven
  • I Shouldn't Be Alive (2005)
    I Shouldn't Be Alive
  • Hiroshima (2005)
    Hiroshima
  • Pissed on the Job
  • Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (2003)
    Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
  • Dogumentary: Rewind the Summer
  • Secrets & Lines
  • Mob Law: A Film Portrait of Oscar Goodman (1998)
    Mob Law: A Film Portrait of Oscar Goodman

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    Over the years he has filmed in Cambodia, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Australia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Morocco, Germany, Austria, France, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and the USA (in California, New York, Nevada, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Mississippi, Tennessee, Lousiana, Florida, Washington DC and Illinois).

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