Alan Bridges

Alan Bridges (28 September 1927 – 7 December 2013)^[1] was an English television and film director.

Alan Bridges
Born	(1927-09-28)28 September 1927 Liverpool, England
Died	7 December 2013(2013-12-07) (aged 86)
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1961-1991

In 1967 Bridges directed a television adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations starring Gary Bond as Pip.^[2]

He won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival for his film The Hireling.^[3] His film Out of Season (1975) was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival,^[4] and his period-costume film The Shooting Party (1985) was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.^[5] For television, Bridges directed several works by David Mercer and Dennis Potter.

Peter Bradshaw on theguardian.com film blog wrote: "Bridges was a brilliant poet and cinematic satirist – in tones both mordant and melancholy – of the English class system of the early 20th century, and a director with a flair for psychology and interior crisis, as evidenced by movies like The Return of the Soldier (1982) and The Shooting Party (1985)."^[6]

Selected filmography

• Act of Murder (1964)
• Invasion (1965)
• Great Expectations (TV, 1967)
• Les Miserables (TV, 1967)
• Traitor (TV, 1971)
• Follow the Yellow Brick Road (TV, 1972)
• The Hireling (1973)
• Brief Encounter (TV film, 1974)
• Joe's Ark (TV, 1974)
• Out of Season (1975)
• Little Girl in Blue Velvet (1978)
• Rain on the Roof (TV, 1980)
• The Return of the Soldier (1982)
• Pudd'nhead Wilson (TV, 1984)
• Displaced Person (TV, 1985)
• The Shooting Party (1985)
• The Tale of Pig Robinson (1990)