Jeremy Silberston
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Jeremy Silberston (1 April 1950–9 March 2006), was an English film director.
He was the son of economist Professor Aubrey Silberston, and his mother, Dorothy, was a founder member of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship; and attended The Perse School, Cambridge.
After training at the BBC as a Production Director in the late 1970s he worked in a range of TV popular drama programmes such as Casualty, and The Bill; and became a good friend of writer Anthony Horowitz and they jointly developed Midsomer Murders (1997) and Foyle's War (2002).
During the 1980s he was Production Manager of Smiley's People (mini TV Series) (1982), Doctor Who The Five Doctors (1983), My Cousin Rachel (mini TV Series) (1983), Bleak House (mini TV Series) (1985), 2 episodes of EastEnders (1986) and 2 episodes of Casualty (1988-1989). He directed episodes of a wide range of TV popular drama including Brookside (1982), 2 episodes of Casualty: Accidents Happen (1989) and Absolution (1988); episodes of Castles (1995); episodes of Coasting (1990); The House of Eliott (episodes 3, 4, 11 & 12) (1991); 12 episodes of The Bill: Return to Sender (1993), A Tangled Web (1997); Vacant Possession (1998), High Places, True Confessions, Saved, By the Book, The Scent of Compassion, Just For The Crack, Time to Kill, On the Wagon, True Lies, and Better the Devil; 10 episodes of Midsomer Murders: Strangler's Wood (1999), Dead Man's Eleven (1999), Judgement Day (2000), Dark Autumn (2001), Birds of Prey (2003); Death's Shadow, Written in Blood, The Killings at Badger's Drift, and Death of a Hollow Man; 8 episodes of Foyle's War (2002-2006): The German Woman, The White Feather, Eagle Day, Among the Few, The Funk Hole, They Fought In The Fields, Enemy Fire and Bad Blood; and also The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: The Seed of Cunning (2005) (TV and completed film).
