Richard Clark (director)

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Richard Clark is a British television director.

He is the winner of the 2011 Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation (with Neil Gaiman) for directing the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Wife". [1]

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  2. http://www.casarotto.co.uk/system/media/client/cv/1924/Pickwoad.pdf [ dead link ]

Richard Clark at IMDb