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Simon Cellan Jones (born January 1963) [1] [2] is a British television director and film director.

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Career

Simon Cellan Jones began his career as a production assistant in the mid-1980s, working on series such as Edge of Darkness . By the late 1980s he had worked his way up to become a director, and he gained credits on some of the most acclaimed British television productions of the 1990s. These included episodes of Cracker (1993) [3] and Our Friends in the North (1996).

He was nominated as the Best Newcomer at the British Academy Film Awards for his first feature film Some Voices (2000). Other television credits have included BBC One's Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004) and More4's The Trial of Tony Blair (2007).

Personal life

Simon is the son of fellow director James Cellan Jones, and the half-brother of BBC News journalist Rory Cellan-Jones. [4]

He married Sarah Jane O'Brien in 1986; they later divorced. He married Elizabeth Starling Gifford in 2003. [5] [6]

Filmography

Feature films

Television

Asst. floor manager on several editions of Howards' Way in 1985.

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References

  1. Simon Cellan Jones January 1963
  2. Cellan Jones, James. Forsyte and Hindsight: Screen Directing for Pleasure and Profit . Kaleidoscope Publishing, 2006. pp. 17–18.
  3. Dunn, Josephine M (28 March 2018). Jimmy McGovern's Cracker. Amazon.com: KDP. pp. 2–159.
  4. Cellan Jones, James. Forsyte and Hindsight: Screen Directing for Pleasure and Profit . Kaleidoscope Publishing, 2006. pp. 14–15.
  5. "FamilySearch.org" . Retrieved 13 December 2023.
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  7. "Prix Italia" (PDF). www.rai.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 22 October 2013.
  8. "Outhwaite to star in sci-fi drama". 22 May 2009 via news.bbc.co.uk.