Christopher Hall (producer)

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Christopher Hall (born March 30, 1957) is a British TV drama producer also known as Chris Hall.

He was born in London, the son of Sir Peter Hall (director) and the actress Leslie Caron, and was educated at Bedales School and St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. He has produced dramas primarily for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 networks and worked both in-house and as a freelancer for major British production companies including Kudos, Carnival, Hattrick and Tiger Aspect. He started his career as an assistant director on feature films with David Hare (Strapless), Paris by Night, Ken Russell, The Lair of the White Worm and as a floor manager and/or assistant director on TV shows such as Inspector Morse and Porterhouse Blue. Working his way up through the grades, he became a Line Producer and then a fully fledged Producer. In 1996 he produced The Final Passage, directed by his father Sir Peter Hall, which won BAFTA and RTS awards for Cinematography.

Hall's best known productions include The Lost World starring Peter Falk, Bob Hoskins, James Fox and Matthew Rhys in 2001. The production was noted for stripping the Conan Doyle text of racial overtones.[1] He also produced Archangel in 2005 starring Daniel Craig, which was adapted from a Robert Harris thriller by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and filmed on location in Moscow and Latvia. In 2011 for Hat Trick for ITV Hall produced Case Sensitive starring Olivia Williams Guardian Review. Hound of the Baskervilles (2002), which starred Richard E. Grant, John Nettles, Ian Hart, Richard Roxburgh and Geraldine James and received a BAFTA nomination for best sound, was another of Hall's productions.[2] Aristocrats, based on the Stella Tillyard biography of the Lennox sisters in 1999 was another major production. One of Hall's drama productions, made as a Christmas show for the BBC in 2003, was the BAFTA-winning The Young Visiters starring Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Sally Hawkins and Simon Russell Beale. It was narrated by Alan Bennett, and directed by David Yates.[3] The score, by Nicholas Hooper, won the BAFTA award for Original Television Music.[4]

Christopher Hall is particularly known[citation needed] for attention to detail in post-production and for special effects, and won an Emmy award[5] for producing the animated natural history drama, Pride, which featured sophisticated special effects.[citation needed] As producer, he was responsible for hiring an outstanding cast to voice the lions, including Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, John Hurt, Robbie Coltrane, Jim Broadbent, Sean Bean, Martin Freeman, Rupert Graves, and Kwame Kwei-Armah. He was hired as post-production producer by Power (Powercorp) in 2011, on a drama called Ice.

In 2011 he produced Hidden, a four-part drama written by Ronan Bennett, starring Philip Glenister, and was Creative Producer on Labyrinth for Scottfree and Tandem, and in August 2012, an adaptation of The Last Weekend by Blake Morrison, scripted by Mick Ford for Carnival and ITV. In 2013 he produced the Carnival ITV pilot Murder on the Home Front. He also completed the ten part series Dracula for NBC and Sky Living . Starring Jonie Reece Myers. The series was shot entirely in Budapest.

Christopher Hall is the half brother of film actress Rebecca Hall and of Edward Hall, the artistic director of Hampstead Theatre.

Productions

As producer
As associate producer

References

  1. ↑ Poole, Oliver (12 November 2000). "BBC will strip Conan Doyle of racial overtones". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 July 2011. 
  2. ↑ "Craft Nominations 2002". BAFTA. Retrieved 10 July 2011. 
  3. ↑ Lowry, Brian (31 October 2004). "The Young Visiters". Variety. Retrieved 10 July 2011. 
  4. ↑ "Craft Nominations 2003". BAFTA. Retrieved 10 July 2011. 
  5. ↑ "Outstanding Children's Program – 2005". Emmys. Retrieved 10 July 2011. 

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