Bill Bain (director)
Bill Bain (18 December 1929 in Wauchope, New South Wales, Australia – 22 February 1982 in London, England) was an Australian television and film director.
Biography
Australia
He was a school teacher who joined the ABC in the 1950s.[1]
In Australia he directed the country's first TV pantomime for Christmas in 1959.[2]
He also directed the TV plays Corinth House (1961) and Funnel Web (1962).
Britain
He directed numerous episodes of British television series, including Emerald Soup, The Avengers, Redcap, and Armchair Theatre.[3] For Amicus he directed a feature film What Ever Happened to Jack and Jill?.[4]
Bain returned to Australia briefly in 1973 where he lamented the quality of local television.[5] He came back in 1975 to attempt to set up a $1 million feature about opal mining. "For too long we've been raped by other people who have come in, made a film and then left."[6]
He won an Emmy Award in 1975 for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for his work on the Upstairs, Downstairs episode "The Sudden Storm". [7]
In 1968 he married the British actress Rosemary Frankau and they had two sons Matthew and Sam Bain.[8]
He left Australia in 1963 but returned for three months in 1979 to be a consultant at the Film and Television School. He died at his home in London, aged 52.[9]
Select filmography
- Corinth House (1961)
- Harlequinade (1961)
- The Little Woman (1962)
- Fly by Night (1962)
- Funnel Web (1962)
- Emerald Soup (1963)[10]
- The Tilted Screen (1966)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (1968)[11]
- All Out for Kangaroo Valley (1969)[12]
- What Became of Jack and Jill? (1972) - feature
References
- "Introducing Bill Bain". ABC Weekly. p. 44.
- "No Ill Will at Christmas". The Australian Women's Weekly. Australia, Australia. 30 December 1959. p. 42. Retrieved 5 February 2020 – via Trove.
- "DID YOU KNOW?". The Australian Women's Weekly. Australia, Australia. 22 April 1964. p. 16. Retrieved 5 February 2020 – via Trove.
- Vagg, Stephen (28 June 2020). "Ten random Australian connections with Hammer Films". Filmink.
- "Cueing in the Cucumbers". Sydney Morning Herald. 19 March 1973. p. 53.
- "Director in Talks on $1 m Aust film". Sydney Morning Herald. 3 November 1975. p. 2.
- "'Upstairs chap'down under Bill Bain home with an Emmy". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 24 November 1975. p. 3. Retrieved 5 February 2020 – via Trove.
- "SOCIAL ROUNDABOUT". The Australian Women's Weekly. Australia, Australia. 29 May 1968. p. 10. Retrieved 5 February 2020 – via Trove.
- "Film director found success in England". Sydney Morning Herald. 23 February 1982. p. 10.
- "TV serial a multi-nation affair". The Australian Women's Weekly. Australia, Australia. 23 October 1963. p. 17. Retrieved 5 February 2020 – via Trove.
- "TELEVISION Miss Jones' new format". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 29 March 1968. p. 13. Retrieved 5 February 2020 – via Trove.
- "Kangaroo Valley' play on BBC". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 7 November 1969. p. 17. Retrieved 5 February 2020 – via Trove.