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Paul Seed is a British television director and former actor.
Born in Bideford in Devon, Seed began his career as an actor and appeared in numerous television series including Z-Cars, Softly Softly: Taskforce, Survivors, Doctor Who, Secret Army, Coronation Street (1960), Crown Court and Tales of the Unexpected. Seed is married to actress Elizabeth Cassidy.
In the late 1970s, Seed chose to pursue a career in TV drama directing and completed the BBC Directors' course following which he directed numerous TV plays, series and serials during the 1980s. Seed is perhaps best known for directing the BBC's smash-hit 1990 mini-series House of Cards and its sequel To Play the King, adapted by Andrew Davies from Michael Dobbs' novels and famously starring Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart.
Seed continued to direct for television drama series throughout the 1990s including A Touch of Frost and Playing the Field, and in 2002 directed all six episodes of the revival of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
In recent years, he has directed episodes of New Tricks, Northern Lights and Lark Rise to Candleford, and in 2010 directed the BBC adaptation of Just William, and also directed Blandings (2013), shown on BBC One.- Joanna Tope was born on 14 May 1944 in Bideford, Devon, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Omega Factor (1979), Emmerdale Farm (1972) and The Tomorrow People (1973).
- John Nott was born on February 1, 1932, in Bideford, Devon, in Southwest England, son of Richard and Phyllis Nott. He served in the armed forces in Malaysia from 1952 to 1956, but left to study law at Trinity College, Cambridge. From there, he entered law practice. He entered politics when he won a seat in Parliament in the 1966 General Election, as a Conservative MP representing St. Ives. He served as an MP for seventeen years. When Margaret Thatcher led the Conservative Party to victory in the 1979 General Election, John Nott was appointed Secretary of State for Trade. He served in that capacity for a year and a half, until he was moved to head the Ministry of Defense in January 1981, replacing Francis Pym. John Nott was Minister of Defense during the 1982 Falklands War. With the outbreak of war, John Nott offered his resignation to the Prime Minister, but Margaret Thatcher refused it, saying he had a bounden duty to stay once British troops were sent into battle. John Nott did not share Margaret Thatcher's enthusiasm for fighting the Falklands War; when Argentina invaded, John Nott reportedly said that once invaded, the Falklands could not be retaken by the British. This was unacceptable to Margaret Thatcher and she overruled him, sending over 25,000 troops to fight the Falklands War. As Defense Minister, John Nott was a member of the War Cabinet, and he oversaw Britain's victory in the Falklands War, the first major military victory for Britain since 1945. After the Falklands War, John Nott left the cabinet and stood down as MP in the 1983 General Election. In 1985, he was elected chairman of the Lazard Brothers Bank. In 2002, he wrote an autobiography titled "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow." The title was inspired by a TV interview in January 1982 in which TV commentator Robin Day suggested that John Nott was a 'here today, gone tomorrow' politician. John Nott angrily stormed off the set, calling that claim "ridiculous."
- Steve Halsall was born on 28 November 1959 in Bideford, Devon, England, UK. He died on 25 September 2022 in El Paso, Texas, USA.
- Allin Braund was born on 29 May 1915 in Bideford, Devon, England, UK. He died on 6 August 2004 in Bideford, Devon, England, UK.
- Renna Caste was born on 10 June 1918 in Bideford, Devon, England, UK. She died on 5 December 2014 in Monmouth, Wales, UK.