Jeremy Summers
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Jeremy Summers (born 1931 in St. Albans) is a retired British television director, best known for his directorship of ITC productions in the 1960s and 1970s, most notably The Saint.
[edit] Background
Born in St Albans in 1931, Summers was born into a family of theatrical tradition and his father Walter Summers (1896-1973) was a film director and screenwriter.
He directed nearly 50 different TV programmes between 1960 and 1999 including The Saint and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).
[edit] Career
Summers began directing in 1960 with a film Depth Charge, the screenplay of which he also wrote, but he immediately began turned his attention to television and directed episodes of Desert Hi-Jack, Interpol Calling and four episodes of International Detective between 1960 and 1961.
In 1962 he directed the Tony Hancock feature film vehicle The Punch and Judy Man and Crooks in Cloisters (1964) with Barbara Windsor. Meanwhile he continued in television with Man of the World and in 1965 episodes of Court Martial, Gideon's Way and directed two more films Ferry Cross the Mersey and San Ferry Ann.
In 1966 Summers directed episodes of Danger Man and Dateline Diamonds and also directed some 12 episodes of The Saint from 1964 to 1966. Episodes of The Saint that Summers filmed include "The Lawless Lady", "The Death Penalty" and "The Unkind Philanthropist" (1964), "The Abducters" (1965) and "The Man Who Liked Lions" finally in 1966.
This was followed by The Baron 1967 and several foreign films of that year The Vengeance of Fu Manchu, Five Golden Dragons and La Casa de las mil muñecas. He also directed an episode of Man in a Suitcase in 1968.
In 1969 still under contract with ITC, Summers directed a number of episodes of the popular series of that year Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) working with actors Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope and Annette Andre.
In the 1990s he even directed epsiodes of Coronation Street and Brookside and filmed the last Brookside edition in 1999, before his retirement.