From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Campbell Rough Bryden CBE (born 12 April 1942, Greenock, Scotland) is a British stage, television and film director, producer and screenwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Bryden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Fragment of a story by Robert Louis Stevenson, completed by Alasdair Gray. A dissolute medical student wakes up in the bedroom of a young woman who fascinates him, in a house where nightly gambling sessions are held.
Release Date1987-12-25
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Charactersd Robert Louis Stevenson
Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.
Release Date2007-07-02
Charactersd Himself
The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.
Release Date1978-01-14
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Release Date1970-10-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count10
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
Release Date1991-10-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
A series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels.
Release Date1988-01-19
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count12
Vote Count3
Simon Hall is a partner in a firm of recruitment consultants. Troubles at work and at home lead him to question the values and morality of the business in which he has been so successful.
Release Date1994-01-16
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count3
The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
Release Date1980-05-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count286
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria.
Release Date1987-05-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count46
National Theatre Cottesloe production filmed for Channel 4
Release Date1985-12-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
The story of the last two years the inhabitants of the islands of St Kilda (far off the west coast of Scotland) spent there, before being evacuated at their own request. This film, originally shown at the London Film Festival, marked the screen debut of writer and director Bill Bryden, who made his theatre reputation directing at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre and the National Theatre. In persuasive style.
Release Date1983-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Set in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His intended is the daughter of JoJo (Connolly), a wealthy and compulsive thief who attempts a spectacular robbery. Louie is put in charge of the investigation of JoJo's latest enterprise. JoJo learns of his peril and begins an exercise in risk management.
Release Date1993-09-19
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
Carl is a US Navy Shore patrol officer who is based at the Holy Loch naval base in Scotland. Armed only with a nightstick, his primary function is to ensure that sailors on shore leave do not become too rowdy, and to provide help to sailors in need of assistance. Carl is married to a local girl and their relationship is at breaking point - she wants to leave Scotland and settle in America while he wants to remain in Scotland. With his brother-in-law Willie, who is already estranged from his wife and under threat of redundancy from his shipyard job, the two men forge a friendship to help each other through.
Release Date1988-01-19
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Adaptation of Pirandello's play.
Release Date1992-12-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
When neurologically ill American actress Sarah calls emotionally crippled English playwright Joe, they begin a very special relationship conducted through trans-Antlantic phone calls. In order to face reality, both must overcome their conditions.
Release Date1990-06-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. Too many shows want too many things done too quickly. Some of the design and graphics staff are intent on not getting involved. Others won't survive the strain.
Release Date1988-02-02
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
The Highlands of Scotland. A fight outside the village hall. Robert Menzies lies dead and Allan Innes flees to the hills, pursued by Robert's brother. An old friend, Sandy Ross, tries to prevent the inevitable blood hunt.
Release Date1986-03-16
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Miss A, troubled by problems, consults a clairvoyant. Can he solve them for her by summoning the spirits? Or is he just a fraud, out to steal her money?
Release Date1989-03-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
'Please don't slam your door - we have a delicate child', but when the baby cries, Deb ignores it. There is a secret which is destroying Deb's marriage to Greg. Only she can save it - only Deb can unlock The Dark Room.
Release Date1988-01-26
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Britain in the very near future. In an abandoned hotel, a young female doctor and a middle-aged scientist are interrogated separately. The question they are both asked is 'Where is Martin Pitt?'
Release Date1990-08-30
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
A fresh-faced gym instructor, Murdo Caldwell, threatens the cosy lifestyle established in the seedy Adonis Health Club in Glasgow, where, up until now, sex ‘n’ sleaze have been the order of the day. Charley and Donald, who have established a comfortable living at the club, plot to get rid of Murdo and his ideals of creating “a wholly healthy Glasgow… a city of perfectly proportioned sinuous but not over-developed physiques.... a city of non-smoking non-drinking joggers ... a city of reposeful but alert minds.' But who will win the battle of minds rather than bodies?
Release Date1988-02-16
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
In the dark days of 1914 Willie Rough set out to find work in Greenock. He becomes a shipbuilding shop steward and soon finds himself involved in a bitter political and industrial conflict.
Release Date1976-03-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A group of young men from Glasgow sign up to fight in the The Great War in a filmed version of Bill Bryden's play.
Release Date1996-06-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Filmed performance of Bill Bryden's play about life in and around the shipyards of Glasgow, performed in the former engine shed of Harland & Wolff shipyard, Govan.
Release Date1990-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
