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Michael Imison | |
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Born | Hoylake, Cheshire | 9 February 1935
Alma mater | Exeter College, Oxford |
Occupation(s) | Television director, literary agent |
Spouse | Tamsyn Imison |
Children | 3 |
Relatives | Richard Imison (brother) |
Michael Imison (born in Hoylake, Cheshire, 9 February 1935) is a retired British television director and literary agent. He directed several productions for the BBC in the 1960s, including Doctor Who , and subsequently served as the story editor on the second series of the science-fiction anthology programme Out of the Unknown .
Imison attended Exeter College at the University of Oxford. [1]
Imison began his career at the BBC working for the Script Department. Initial successes included directing Magnyfcence by John Skelton at the Tower Theatre, Canonbury in May 1963. [2] Under contract as a director at the BBC, Imison directed Compact and a serial adaptation of Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks .
His final directorial assignment for the BBC was the Doctor Who serial The Ark (1966), which starred William Hartnell as the First Doctor. Although his contract as a staff director was not renewed following the completion of the serial, [3] Imison remained at the BBC and acted as story editor on the second series of Out of the Unknown under producer Irene Shubik.
Later in his career, Imison became a literary agent. His company represented Noël Coward and Terence Rattigan, among many other playwrights. He also helped previously unknown dramatists such as David Edgar ( The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ) and Bernard Pomerance ( The Elephant Man ) to international success. It has now been incorporated into Alan Brodie Representation Ltd.,
Imison founded and chaired the Noël Coward Society, worked for the British Humanist Association, [4] and also founded and chaired the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society when he was the undergraduate director of the Oxford University Theatre Group, known for its late-night revues which launched the careers of Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore among others.[ citation needed ]
Imison was married to the educator Dame Tamsyn Imison and lives in Suffolk. [5]
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