Stuart Hood
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Stuart Hood (born December 17, 1915 in Edzell, Angus, Scotland) is a Scottish novelist, translator and a former British television producer and executive.
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[edit] Life
Hood's father was an infant school headmaster, firstly in Edzell and then in Montrose. After school he attended the University of Edinburgh between 1934 and 1938. [1]
During the Second World War he served in the British Army as an Intelligence Officer. He spent a year in Italy as a prisoner of war before joining the partisans.
From 1961 until 1963 Hood was the Controller of the BBC Television Service. He became the overall Controller of BBC Television in 1963 with the preparations for the launch of BBC Two, with his former assistant Donald Baverstock working under him to Control BBC One and Michael Peacock doing the same for the new channel.
On resigning from the BBC, he worked briefly at Rediffusion as Controller.
During the 1970s he was Professor of Film and Television at the Royal Academy of Art.
He was active in the ACTT union and was a member of the Socialist Labour League between 1973 and 1978. [2]
[edit] Writings
Hood is known as a translator, beginning with Ernst Jünger's On the Marble Cliffs" in 1946. [3] He also translated Erich Fried, Dario Fo and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
He has also written the novels A Storm From Paradise (1985) and The Upper Hand (1987).
[edit] References
- ^ Hood, Stuart; Bob Lumley (1988). "Keeping Faith: An Interview with Stuart Hood". Edinburgh Review 78-9. , p175
- ^ Edinburgh Review, 1988, p202
- ^ Edinburgh Review, 1988, p186
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| Preceded by Kenneth Adam |
Controller of BBC Television Service 1961-1963 |
Succeeded by Donald Baverstock |
