Daniel Percival (director)

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Daniel Percival is a British director and screenwriter of television drama. He earned multiple BAFTAs for his work. [1] [2]

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Having originally trained as a film editor Percival started directing documentaries for the BBC in the mid 1990s. One of his earliest successes was a two-part series about depression for Channel 4 in England, New Britain on the Couch, presented by psychologist Oliver James, as well as Ancient Inventions .

Percival would transition into drama work over the 2000s. writing on Waking the Dead and co-writing and directing the political thriller The State Within . The series, a joint production between BBC Films and BBC America, follows Sir Mark Brydon (Jason Isaacs), the British Ambassador to Washington, who is caught in the centre of a political conspiracy threatening to depose Western governments. As such, he must prevent a war, all whilst facing his own personal dilemmas. [3] [4] The series was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards in the categories 'Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television' and 'Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film'. [5] Other work includes Death Comes to Pemberley [6] and Jimmy McGovern's Banished , and several Frank Spotnitz productions, such as Chris Ryan's Strike Back , Crossing Lines, Hunted and Leonardo .

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  2. "2005 Television Craft New Director - Fiction | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  3. "The State Within - Episodes". BBC.
  4. "'Then I'd have to kill you'". 4 June 2023 via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  5. "The State within".
  6. "Jenna Coleman to Star in Death Comes To Pemberley". BBC. 18 June 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2020.