Jeremy Silberston (1 April 1950–9 March 2006), was an English film director.
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Silberston was the son of economist Professor Aubrey Silberston, and his mother, Dorothy, was a founder member of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship. He attended The Perse School, Cambridge.
After college, he traveled to France working on the Disney on Ice show. Returning to England he began to work in television production.
After training at the BBC as a Production Director in the late 1970s (he was recruited for his ability to speak French) he worked in a range of TV popular drama programmes such as Casualty and The Bill. He 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 the Nanny Series 1 (1980), 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), two episodes of EastEnders (1986) and two episodes of Casualty (1988-1989).
He directed episodes of a wide range of TV popular drama including Brookside (1982). The two episodes of Casualty were "Accidents Happen" (1989) and "Absolution" (1988); episodes of Coasting (1990); The House of Eliott (episodes 3, 4, 11 & 12 of series 1; 7 and, 8 of series 2 and 9 and 10 of series 3) (1991-93); episodes of Castles (1995); 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: The Killings at Badger's Drift (1997), Written in Blood (1998), Death of a Hollow Man (1998), Death's Shadow (1999), Strangler's Wood (1999), Dead Man's Eleven (1999), Judgement Day (2000), Dark Autumn (2001), Birds of Prey (2003); 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).
He was married to Catherine Napier, a correspondent for the BBC World Service. He had two sons, Theo and Toby.
He died of cancer after seven months of illness. An episode of Foyle's War "Casualties of War", first broadcast in 2006, was dedicated to his memory.