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Roy Battersby (1936-2024) was a British director. He started his career making documentary features for the BBC, including work on their groundbreaking science series Tomorrow's World. In 1970 he directed the innovative scientific documentary film The Body, before moving into drama and directing TV plays, often working with writer Colin Welland.
He made with several films for the Play for Today series but his role as an organiser with the Workers Revolutionary Party and his Trotskyist politics led to him being blacklisted by the BBC at the behest of Special Branch and the security services, a fact which Battersby was unaware of at the time.
Once his association ended in the 1980s, Battersby was allowed to direct at the BBC once more. Serials such as 1986's King of the Ghetto led to regular work on Between the Lines in the early 90s. Now specialising in crime drama, he also helmed several episodes of ITV's Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost and Cracker. His 2005 film Red Mercury was shown at the Montreal World Film Festival, where it was nominated for best film. In 1996, Battersby was awarded the Alan Clarke award at BAFTA. He was married to actress Judy Loe and is the stepfather of actress Kate Beckinsale.
Most Popular Roy Battersby Trailers
Total trailers found: 23
26 February 1973
David Adler is an operator. He strips assets, other men's wives, and his oldest friend's soul - anything for a cool million.
13 May 2005
Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear.
01 January 1985
An fifty-year-old mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to romantically please every woman that fancies him.
01 May 1993
"When you marry, have kids...you'll still be in that chair." An ordinary city flat. Evening. A man tries to talk to his daughter.
20 December 1984
As the Falklands War looms, an RAF recruit falls for a young barmaid, but their romance is quickly complicated with some surprising news.
09 August 1989
Eastern Europe, February 1944: Johann Frink and Otto Hansen, once famous Berlin cabaret artists, are summoned to take part in a special 'entertainment', devised by a mysterious Nazi captain.
01 May 1986
An idealistic former soldier helps unite and house ethnic minorities in a run down area of London's d
12 October 2020
Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies and legacies.
13 November 1972
A man celebrating his birthday comes to appreciate the difference between media fantasy and mundane reality.
01 January 1991
Lily Whitmore is the heir to a crumbling factory that she's determined to restore to its former glory.
08 August 1991
The true story of a daring prison break. Wycliffe Kato, Director of Civil Aviation in Idi Amin's Uganda was at the airport to catch a flight to Canada for a conference when he was arrested by Amin's secret police, members of the notorious State Research Bureau, and thrown into the Nakasero prison.
01 January 1997
This 1940s drama presents a story of class conflict and its influence on romance. Robert Bradley leaves the shipyards to work in his uncle's furniture business but soon finds himself at odds with the old man.
01 January 1987
Gerald and Susannah, an affluent young couple, inspect a shabby town house for sale. Gerald has plans to renovate it and sell it on for a big profit.
28 April 1977
A powerful Palestinian documentary starring Vanessa Redgrave about the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and its role in Lebanon, as well as the daily struggles and resistance of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation.
01 December 2008
A day in the life of Jane Grey, a struggling Black actress living in London's hard, beautiful city, grappling with unemployment.
27 August 1969
A film about four women who have been in prison.
07 December 1999
University lecturer Neil Tannahill is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving secretly-stored Soviet nuclear waste at a remote British nuclear facility after receiving an enigmatic note from legendary atomic scientist and one-time former head of "Doomwatch" (the infamous Scientific watchdog group of the seventies), Dr Spencer Quist.
19 December 1970
Compelling drama from screenwriter Colin Welland set in a city comprehensive school of low expectations and ambitions.
09 October 1970
A psychedelic documentary of the body electric, with music by Pink Floyd. The film was directed and produced by Roy Battersby.
19 October 1972
They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.
30 August 1990
Britain in the very near future. In an abandoned hotel, a young female doctor and a middle-aged scientist are interrogated separately.
31 October 1974
The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.
07 July 1975
With her boss unexpectedly absent. Helen, his secretary takes charge.
