Paul Marcus

Paul Coryn Valentine Marcus (30 May 1954 – 13 February 2011) was a BAFTA winning British television director and producer.^[1][2] His most notable success was as producer of the television series Prime Suspect, but he also worked in cinema, theatre and many other TV series.^[3]

Paul Marcus
Born	Paul Coryn Valentine Marcus (1954-05-30)30 May 1954 London, England
Died	13 February 2011(2011-02-13) (aged 56) London, England
Occupation	television director
Spouse	Viviana Maranzano (1987–2011)

Early life

Marcus was born in London in 1954, the son of playwright Frank Marcus, a German-born Jew who fled to Britain in 1939 and the actress Jacqueline Sylvester. He was educated at Latymer Upper School and Lincoln College, Oxford.^[4]

Credits

His credits include the following:

• New Voices (1994, TV series)
• Prime Suspect: The Scent of Darkness (1995, TV movie)
• Break Up (1998)
• After Alice (2000)
• Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (2001, TV series)
• The Bill (2002, TV series)
• In Deep (2001 –2003, TV series)
• Imperium: Nerone (2004, TV movie)
• Heidi (2005)
• Dalziel and Pascoe (2000–2006, TV series)
• Roman Mysteries (2007, TV series)
• Lark Rise To Candleford (2009, TV series)