Geoffrey Sax

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Geoffrey Sax (sometimes credited as Geoff Sax) is a British film and television director, who has worked on a variety of drama productions in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

Life and career

He began his directing career in the late 1970s, initially working in comedy, directing episodes of a number of sketch shows such as Cannon and Ball and End of Part One. He made the move into directing drama in the early 1980s, working on episodes of BBC dramas such as Bergerac and Lovejoy.

Later in the decade he worked on

In 1998 Sax returned to the UK. He directed Lynda La Plante's adaptation of her own novel Killer Net that year, and later gained credits on Paul Abbott's acclaimed Clocking Off, a Red Production Company series for BBC One.

In 2001 he directed a

Sax's first theatrically released feature film, White Noise, was released in January 2005, entering the US Box Office top ten at No. 2. His second feature, Stormbreaker — based on Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider novel of the same name — was released in the summer of 2006. He also directed the film Frankie & Alice in 2010.

In 2011, Sax directed a television film entitled Christopher and His Kind.^[1]

He directed the

• The Disputation (1986)
• Circle of Deceit
  (1993)
• Doctor Who (1996)
• Othello (2001)
• Margery and Gladys (2003)
• White Noise (2005)
• Stormbreaker (2006)
• Frankie & Alice (2010)
• Christopher and His Kind (2011)

Television

• Canned Laughter
  (1979)
• End of Part One (1979–1980)
• Spitting Image (1986)
• The New Statesman (1987–1990)
• Bergerac (1988–1990)
• Sleepers (1991)
• Framed (1992)
• Lovejoy (1992–1993)
• Killer Net (1998)
• Tipping the Velvet (2002)
• Murder on the Home Front (2013)
• Blandings (2014)
• Endeavour (2014, 2018)
• Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (2014)
• Us (2020)

References

External links

• Geoffrey Sax at
  IMDb
• Geoffrey Sax at AllMovie