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Verity Lambert

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71 Years Old

Verity Ann Lambert OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. Lambert began working in television in the 1950s. She began her career as a producer at the BBC by becoming the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who from 1963 until 1965. She left the BBC in 1969 and worked for other television companies, notably having a long association with Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and 1980s. Her many credits as producer include Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder, Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek, Love Soup and Eldorado. She also worked in the film industry for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. From 1985 she ran her own production company, Cinema Verity. She continued to work as a producer until the year she died. Women were rarely television producers in Britain at the beginning of Lambert's career. When she was appointed to Doctor Who in 1963, she was BBC Television's only female drama producer, as well as the youngest. The website of the Museum of Broadcast Communications hails her as "not only one of Britain's leading businesswomen, but possibly the most powerful member of the nation's entertainment industry ... Lambert has served as a symbol of the advances won by women in the media". The British Film Institute's Screenonline website describes Lambert as "one of those producers who can often create a fascinating small screen universe from a slim script and half-a-dozen congenial players." Description above from the Wikipedia article Verity Lambert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born

Hampstead, London, England, UK on 27th November 1935

Died

22nd November 2007

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Dr. Forever!
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Doctor Who Then & Now Image
Doctor Who Then & Now
Remembering 'The Aztecs' Image
Remembering 'The Aztecs'
Self (in photo) (archive footage)
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas Image
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
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The Story of Doctor Who Image
The Story of Doctor Who
Doctor Who: Origins Image
Doctor Who: Origins
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Don't Lose Your Head Image
Don't Lose Your Head
Herself (archive footage)
30 Years in the TARDIS Image
30 Years in the TARDIS
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Masters of Sound Image
Masters of Sound
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Verity Lambert: Drama Queen Image
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
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A Night in with the Girls Image
A Night in with the Girls
Vision On Image
Vision On
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Creation of the Daleks Image
Creation of the Daleks
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Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS Image
Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS
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The Celestial Toyroom
Tales of Isop Image
Tales of Isop
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The Last Moguls
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The Doctors: The William Hartnell Years Behind The Scenes Image
The Doctors: The William Hartnell Years Behind The Scenes
Myth Makers 43: William Hartnell Image
Myth Makers 43: William Hartnell
Over the Edge: The Story of "The Edge of Destruction" Image
Over the Edge: The Story of "The Edge of Destruction"
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Daleks! Conquer and Destroy Image
Daleks! Conquer and Destroy
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Daleks! Beyond the Screen Image
Daleks! Beyond the Screen
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