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Roger Jenkins
Roger Jenkins (born May 1931)[1] is a British theatre and television director who directed multiple British television productions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s as well as directing, prducing, and filming stage plays.[2][3]
Life and career
Early life and education
Jenkins was educated at Bristol Grammar School. He subsequently attended St Catharine's College, Cambridge where he read English from 1950 to 1953. It was a time when the Cambridge amateur theatre scene was dominated by Peter Hall, with whom Jenkins shared rooms in college.[4] During his time at Cambridge, Jenkins acted in and directed numerous productions for the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club (ADC) and the Marlowe Society. After leaving Cambridge in 1953, Jenkins worked as a producer trainee for BBC Radio for two years. In addition to his work as a studio manager, he acted in numerous amateur productions at London theatres and in 1961 returned to Cambridge to direct a Marlowe Society production of Jean Anouilh's The Lark with the young Ian McKellen as Warwick.[5]
Years at Associated-Rediffusion
In 1955, Jenkins became a staff director at Associated-Rediffusion, the UK's first commercial television company, a position he was to hold for the next five years. He directed four programmes in the first week of commercial television and directed children's programmes with Rolf Harris and Charlie Drake, and light entertainment programmes with Cy Grant. Jenkins also directed the first schools' series in the UK, The Ballad Story and the first schools' play, Macbeth (with William Devlin, Mary Morris and Miles Malleson), followed by Dr Faustus (with Paul Rogers, Judi Dench, Patrick Troughton), She Stoops to Conquer (with Paul Daneman, Jane Downs), and Twelfth Night (with John Wood, Laurence Hardy, Emrys James).[1]
For Associated-Rediffusion's drama department, Jenkins directed nine episodes of Murder Bag, six episodes of Crime Street and one episode of No Hiding place with Raymond Francis.[1] He also directed two television plays for the company in 1959—The Guardsman's Cup of Tea by Thomas Browne (with Michael Craig, Barbara Shelley, Margot Grahame, January 1959) and The Extra Grave (with Michael Gough, Isabel Dean, July 1959).[1]
Freelance career
In November 1960, Jenkins resigned from Associated-Rediffusion to work as a freelance television, theatre, and film director. Over the next 30 years he directed or produced numerous episodes of television series such as Poldark, Z Cars, Howard's Way, The Troubleshooters, and Coronation Street. He also made instructional videos and worked as an executive producer for Trans World International. Through his film company, Hyperion Films, he produced The Great Event, a documentary on the Badminton Horse Trials, for BBC television and produced and directed development work for a Channel 4 series on British Library manuscripts.
Later years
Jenkins set up The Archive of Theatre Performance (ATP) in 1989 to make archival video recordings of theatre performances. From 1991 to 1993 he was a video consultant at the Theatre Museum and from 1994 to 1995 was a video consultant at the British Library.
Jenkins formed The Meysey Players in 1996 to perform outdoor summer amateur productions of plays in the Cotswolds.[4] Between 1997 and 2000, he produced and directed Love's Labours Lost, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Sweet Jack Falstaff (from Henry IV parts 1 and 2), The Rivals, Much Ado About Nothing, The Wind in the Willows, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and The Cherry Orchard.
In 2001 he formed Duveen Productions with Simon Langton to pursue a project on the relationship between the art connoisseur Bernard Berenson and the art dealer Joseph Duveen.[4] In 2004 the company co-produced The Old Masters by Simon Gray (based on a treatment by Jenkins) at The Comedy Theatre, London with Edward Fox, Peter Bowles, and Barbara Jefford.[6] The play subsequently had its US Premiere at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut in January 2011 with Sam Waterston and Brian Murray.[7]
Now retired, Jenkins lives in a village in the Cotswolds with his wife Joan. The couple have two grown children, a son and daughter.
Freelance production chronology 1960–1996
Theatre
November 1960 The Father- Stringberg. Leatherhead Rep.
December 1960 A Taste of Honey - Shelagh Delaney. - Leatherhead Rep.
December 1960 Frost at Midnight - Andre Obey. Leatherhead Rep.
February 1962 The Corn is Green - Emlyn Williams. Leatherhead Rep.
February 1961Candida - by Shaw - Belgrade Theatre, Coventry [8]
Febrary 1961 A Taste of Honey - Belgrade Theatre, Coventry[9]
April 1961 The Pleasure of His Company - Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
April 1961 The Rivals - Sheridan[10] - Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
May 1961 Naked Island - Russell Braddon[11] - Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
March 1963 Twelfth Night[12] - Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
June 1961 Lady Windermere's Fan - Wilde[13] - Nottingham Rep.
August 1961 The Lark - Anouilh (Marlowe Soc.) - Cambridge Arts and Oxford Playhouse
November 1963 The Three Sisters - Chekhov - RADA
March 1963 Heartbreak House - Shaw - Bristol Old Vic
January-March 1964 As You Like It (RADA Company) - Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona
April 1964 Julius Caesar - RADA at Southwark
May 1964 The White Devil - Webster - RADA
The Bristol Old Vic[14]
August 1964 Arms and the Man - Shaw - Bristol Old Vic
September 1964 Isabelle - Jacques Deval[15] - Bristol Old Vic
October 1964 Dandy Dick - Pinero - Bristol Old Vic
November 1965 The Beaux' Strategem - Farquhar - Bristol Old Vic
January 1965 Hamlet - RADA
October 1967 High Fidelity by John Elliot - For the Repetory Players - Comedy Theatre
November 1968 The Flip Side by H and M Williams - Bromley Rep
August 1972 The Living Room by Graham Greene - Watermill Theatre, Newbury
September 1972 There's a Girl in my Soup - Watermill Theatre, Newbury
November 1975 The Country Wife by Wycherley - Webber Douglas Acadamy
March 1976 Yegor Bulichov by Maxim Gorki - Ealing Drama Studio
June 1982 Twelfth Night - St. Georges Theatre
May 1984 Play with Fire by Stanley Ralph Ross - Dundee Rep.
October 1985 My Friend Alec by George Hulme - Lyric Studio, Hammersmith
1986-87-88 Youth Recruiting Play - Royal Navy
Television
January 1961 Knight Errant no.1 (Drama Series) - Granada TV
January 1961 Knight Errant no.2 (Drama Series) - Granada TV
July 1961 The Avengers - Double Danger[1] - ABC TV
August 1961 The Avengers - Kill the King[1] - ABC TV
October 1961 Family Soliciter - Conspiracy to Defraud - Granada TV
May 1962-August 1962 Compact - Nos. 37, 38, 67, 68 - BBC TV
Z Cars[1]
September 1962 Z Cars - no. 33 - "Full Remission" - BBC TV
October 1962 Z Cars - Corroboration - BBC TV
October 1962 Z Cars - A Quiet Night - BBC TV
November 1962 Z Cars - Known to the Police- -BBC TV
June 1963 Z Cars - Act of Vengeance - BBC TV
November 1963 Z Cars - Trumpet Voluntary - BBC TV
April 1963 Moonstrike - Unwelcome Ghost - BBC TV
May 1963 Moonstrike - Death Sentence - BBC TV
February 1965 Love's Labour's Lost - OB from the Theatre Royal, Bristol - BBC TV
March 1965 Uncle Charles - Mrs Philippe is Hurt - A-R TV
May 1965 Coriolanus - National Youth Theatre OB from Chichester Theatre - BBC TV
July 1965 She Stoops to Conquer[1] - OB from the Theatre Royal, Bristol - BBC TV
August 1965 Mogul - A Job for Willy - BBC TV.
December 1965 Out of the Unknown - Some Lapse of Time[1] - BBC TV
March 1966 This Man Craig - The Bike - BBC TV
April 1966 This Man Craig - A Rough Passage - BBC TV
May 1966 This Man Craig - Two Thousand a Year - BBC TV
June 1966 This Man Craig - Whose Pigeon - BBC TV
November 1966 Adam Adamant Lives Ep. 1 A Slight Case of Reincarnation - BBC TV
December 1966 Adam Adamant Lives Ep.4 Conspiracy of Death - BBC TV
Troubleshooters
May 1966 Troubleshooters - The Daring Young Man - BBC TV
July 1966 Troubleshooters - Do Your Best for the Lads - BBC TV
August 1966 Troubleshooters - Wet Night in Sociehall Street - BBC TV
September 1866 Troubleshooters - Happy Landings - BBC TV
October 1966 Troubleshooters - No Such Thing as Luck - BBC TV
March 1967 Troubleshooters - Think Big - BBC TV
April 1967 Troubleshooters - Journey from the Interior - BBC TV
May 1967 Troubleshooters - Home and Dry - BBC TV
August 1967 Troubleshooters - And the Walls Came Tumbling Down - BBC TV
November 1967 Troubleshooters - A Nice White Girl, Is She for Sale? - BBC TV
December 1967 Troubleshooters - Thanks for Nothing - BBC TV
February 1968 Troubleshooters - Give Me the Simple Life - BBC TV
February 1968 Troubleshooters - A Girl to Warm your Feet On = BBC TV
April 1968 Troubleshooters - Power Struggle - BBC TV
April 1968 Troubleshooters - The Minister of the Crown and the very Compromising Photographs - BBC TV
April 1968 Troubleshooters - We All Live in a Yellow Submarine - BBC TV
April 1968 Detective - Artists in Crime[1] - BBC TV
May 1968 Vendetta - The Paradise Man - BBC TV
June 1968 Vendetta - The St. Valentines Man - BBC TV
July 1968 Vendetta - The Money Man - BBC TV
July 1968 Out of the Unknown - Something in the Cellar[1] - BBC TV
September 1968 Out of the Unknown - Target Generation[1] - BBC TV
November 1968 Sherlock Holmes - Wisteria Lodge[1] - BBC TV
July 1969 The Borderers - Survival Day - BBC TV
August 1969 The Borderers - A Woman or an Epitaph - BBC TV
September 1969 The Borderers - Among the Eagles - BBC TV
December 1969 The Borderers - Where the White Lilies Grow - BBC TV
Troubleshooters
February 1970 Troubleshooters - The Slick and the Dead - BBC TV
March 1970 Troubleshooters - Let's See the Colour of Your Money - BBC TV
April 1970 Troubleshooters - We Also Need Experts - BBC TV
July 1970 Here and Now - Somebody's Got to Carry the Can - BBC TV
November 1970 Task Force (Softly Softly) - Who Wants Pride[1] - BBC TV
December 1970 Task Force (Softly Softly) - The Lie Direct[1] - BBC TV
February 1971 Brett - Investment Long Term[1] - BBC TV
Troubleshooters
June 1971 Troubleshooters - Pie in the Sky part 1 - BBC TV
June 1971 Troubleshooters - Pie in the Sky part 2 - BBC TV
August 1971 Trial - -Verdict - BBC TV
September 1971 Trial - Witness - -BBC TV
November 1971 Troubleshooters - Whatever Became of the Year 2000?- BBC TV
June 1972 The Onedin Line - A Woman Alone[1] - BBC TV
August 1972 The Onedin Line - Survivor[1] - BBC TV
Ocber 1972 Go-Girl ( Film Series for TV) - Action Plus/HTV
February 1973 Aborted due to lack of funds
July-September 1973 Harriet's Back in Town Eps.75, 76, 83, 84, 97, 98[1] - Thames TV
November 1973 The Onedin Line - Over the Horizon[1] - BBC TV
December 1973 The Onedin Line - Port Out Starboard Home[1] - BBC TV
March 1974 Bedtime Stories - Hansel and Grethel[1] - BBC TV
July 1974 The Double Dealers - Come in Number One[1] - BBC TV
August 1974 The Double Dealers - Headhunt - BBC TV
Warship[1]
October 1974 Warship - One of Those Days - BBC TV
November 1974 Warship - The Man from the Sea - BBC TV
November 1974 Warship - Nothing to Starboard - BBC TV
July 1976 Warship - Counter Charge - BBC TV
Sea Tales[1]
May 1977 Sea Tales Produced The Return - BBC TV
May 1977 Sea Tales Produced and Directed A Bucket of Fish and a Whistle - BBC TV
May 1977 Sea Tales Produced Fair Do's - BBC TV
June 1977 Sea Tales Produced Captain Varley - BBC TV
June 1977 Sea Tales Produced and Directed The Fire - BBC TV
June 1977 Sea Tales Produced The Gaffer - BBC TV
June 1977 Sea Tales Produced Miss Barraclough - BBC TV
Poldark Series 2 BBC TV
July 1977 Part 6
August 1977 Part 7
August 1977 Part 8
September 1977 Part 9
November 1978 Secret Army - Series 2 Scorpion[1] - BBC TV
November 1978 Secret Army - A Matter of Life and Death[1] - BBC TV
A Family Affair[1]
February 1978 A Family Affair - Ep. 3 Home Truths - BBC TV
February 1979 A Family Affair - Daytime Wife - BBC TV
March 1979 A Family Affair - Ep. 5 A Bit of a Troublemaker - BBC TV
April 1970-April 1980 The Great Event (Documentary film on Badminton Horse Trials for own Production Company, Hyperion Films)[1] - BBC TV
March 1980-April 1980 Coronation Street Eps.P694/982, 983, 976, 977, 988, 989[1] - GRANADA TV
July 1986 Adventures of a Lady Associate Producer - HTV
1986-1987 Directed re-voicing of Pepe Cavalho - Eco Ltd
April-October 1987 Crossroads Eps.4414-4417, 4430-4433, 4446-4449 - Central TV
March -September 1988 Howard's Way Eps. 4, 5, 6.[1] - BBC TV
April 1995 Produced and Directed Development Work on Series of British Library Manuscripts through own Company - Hyperion Films. - Chanel 4 TV
Film and video
- June 1970 Nature Conservancy Film - C.O.I.
- November 1980 Reaching the People (Doc. for Census Office) - T.V.I
- March-October 1981 Bid for Power - 13 X 15 eps. - BBC English by Television
- October 1986 - Directed The Queen's Cup - Polo video for Cartier
- March-April 1987 - Wrote and Directed Targets (N. Ireland Security Film) - S.S.V.C
- September 1987-March 1988 The Hobnobs Story - Wadlow Grosvenor
- October 1991 Directed Wind in the Willows video at Royal National Theatre
- May 1992 Directed archival recording of Richard III (Ian McKellen) at Royal National Theatre
- March 1993 Directed archival recording of Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) at Royal Shakespear Theatre
- April 1993 Directed archival recording of It Runs in the Family by Ray Cooney at Playhouse Theatre
- June 1993 Produced and Directed archival recording of One Thing More by Christopher Fry at Chelsea Old Church - ATP
- October 1993 Produced and Directed archival recording of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe at Rudolph Steiner Hall, London - ATP
- February 1994 Directed archival recording of An Inspector Calls by J.B.Priestly at Aldwych Theatre - TM
- Archival recordings in the Gate Theatre Biennale, celebrating contemporary European Theatre for ATP
- February 1996 Cat and Mouse, (Sheep) by Gregory Motton
- February 1996 Services, or They All Do It by Elfriede Jelinek
- March 1996 Sisters, Brothers by Stig Larsson
- March 1996 The Original Polonaise by Nikolai Kolyade
- April 1996 Sugar Dollies by Klaus Chatten
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae British Film Institute Television Archives. Roger Jenkins. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- ^ Earnshaw,Tony (2001). An Actor, and a Rare One: Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes, p. 123. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810838745. Quote: "Roger Jenkins Born 1931 Director: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (Wisteria Lodge) A prolific freelance television, film, and theatre director, Jenkins has had a hand in dozens of top-rated TV productions."
- ^ Roberts, Jerry (2009). "Roger Jenkins". Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors, p. 282. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810863782
- ^ a b c Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard (13 June 2003). "New honorary president at Meysey players". Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- ^ Mckellen.com (Ian McKellen's official website). [http://www.mckellen.com/stage/index0.htm "Cambridge University Undergraduate Productions October 1958 - August 1961". Retrieved 2 october 2014.
- ^ Gray, Simon (2013). The Complete Smoking Diaries, pp. 323–324. Granta Books. ISBN 184708866X
- ^ Hetrick, Adam (24 June 2010). "Murray and Waterston to star in Broadway-bound The Old Masters". Playbill. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- ^ Coventry Evening Telegraph and The Guardian 14th February 1961[not specific enough to verify]
- ^ Evening Tribune 21st February 1961[not specific enough to verify]
- ^ The Guardian by Gareth Lloyd Evans[not specific enough to verify]
- ^ Coventry Evening Telegraph 9th May 1961[not specific enough to verify]
- ^ The Coventry Evening Telegraph 6th March, Daily Mail 3rd April, The Guardian 7th March 1963[not specific enough to verify]
- ^ The Nottingham Evening Post 14th June 1961[not specific enough to verify]
- ^ Evening Post 8th August 1964[not specific enough to verify]
- ^ Evening Post 26th September 1964[not specific enough to verify]
Further sources
- Brien, Jeremy (8 August 1964). Evening Post [full citation needed]
- British Universities Film & Video Council Archives. "Roger Jenkins"
- Clark, David. Poldark Country, pp. 41, 69. Bossiney Books and Cornish Life Magazine
- Graham, Winston. The Poldark World, p. 190 [full citation needed]
- Gray, Simon (2006). The Year of the Jouncer, pp. 175-176. Granta Books
- Priestner, Andy (2008). The Complete Secret Army, pp. 201-202. Classic TV Press
- Scott, Peter Graham (2000). British Television: An Insider's History, pp. 75, 111, 114, 126, 173, 174, 177, 179, 187, 216. McFarland. ISBN 0786406534
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