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John Alexander is an award winning British director of television drama who grew up in the East Durham Coal Field and joined the BBC as a post-graduate trainee. He produced a number of documentaries before directing drama. His works include Quirke, The 7.39, Sense and Sensibility, Small Island, Exile, One Child and Belgravia. Small Island won an International Emmy for Best Mini-Series, and Sense and Sensibility won the Magnolia Best Director Prize at the Shanghai International Film Festival. Exile was BAFTA-nominated for Best Director Fiction and One Child was Royal Television Society-nominat…

  • Directing
  • Born 18 October 1961 (age 64)
  • Peterlee, County Durham, England
  • 25 credits

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Most-watched John Alexander films currently: The Shadow in the North (2007), Mosley (1998), Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me (2008), Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video (1990), Get Out! (1992).

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Selected TV credits: Grace (2021), Life on Mars (2006), Jamestown (2017), Teachers (2001), Cutting It (2002).

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