In 2023 Day produced The Cello (2023 film), an international co-production starring Jeremy Irons and Tobin Bell, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. That same year he was producer on Patrick Aryee's Wild World for Sky TV. In 2021 Day directed a six-part, crime series Dying to Be Famous, about the suspicious death of model, Ryan Singleton, airing on Bounce TV. That same year, he produced the supernatural reality show, Kindred Spirits.[1] In 2019, The Russian Bride, starring Corbin Bernsen and Kristina Pimenova, which Day produced, was chosen to close the Fantasporto International Film Festival,.[2] Between 2016 and 2018, Day worked with notable comic book author Stan Lee on Stan Lee's Lucky Man. Day also worked with director Robert Rodriguez for the BBC show Robert Rodriguez' Ten Minute Film School.[3] Day wrote and directed a number of documentaries for National Geographic including a film about D. B. Cooper,[4] a man who has eluded the FBI for over thirty years.[5] His two-hour film about the Luxor massacre[6][7] was called Massacre in Luxor. In 2000, Day created a series for TLC Why Doctors Make Mistakes. A year later he produced the TV show High Stakes: Bet Your Life on Vegas which partnered with Emmy Award winning actor Ray Liotta.[8] In 2006 he moved to California, where he set up Edge West Productions. Between 2008 and 2018 Edge West won multiple awards for productions like The Skyjacker That Got Away for National Geographic Channel. In 2010 Philip J. Day was nominated for an Emmy Award at the 2010 News and Documentary Emmy Awards for the film The Skyjacker That Got Away.[9]
Held At Gunpoint
In 2009 Day and his team had been filming in the desert of southern Peru on a film about the Nazca Lines for National Geographic Channel. At around 3:45 am five armed men, wearing face masks, scaled a twenty-foot wall to break into the hotel, where Day and his team were asleep. The assailants first took the receptionist and hotel manager hostage at gunpoint. The receptionist was bound and gagged while the manager was forced to provide a master key for all the bedrooms. The attackers had specifically come to steal expensive film equipment. They beat up several people and stole some equipment, but the actions of hotel staff saved the crew from a more severe and potentially life-threatening robbery.[10]
Family
Philip Day is the brother of environmental lawyer, Martyn Day (lawyer). And the son of Hazel Day, a notable actress and opera singer in Yorkshire, and Brian Day (deceased), a chartered accountant. Hazel is known for performances with the York light Opera Company. Her best known performances were in Kiss Me Kate,[11] Song of Norway,[12] and finally Kismet.[13]
Bibliography
Empire’s Witness: A Soldier’s Secret War Diary 1942–45 (2026)
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