Humphrey Barclay
Humphrey Barclay (BEM) | |
|---|---|
| Born | 24 March 1941 Dorking, Surrey, England, United Kingdom |
| Education | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Occupation(s) | Comedy Executive, TV and radio producer |
| Known for | Founder of Barclay Productions (TV production firm) |
Humphrey Barclay BEM (born 24 March 1941) is a British comedy executive and producer.
Career
Barclay was educated at
revues alongside Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, David Hatch, Jonathan Lynn, Jo Kendall and Miriam Margolyes. Barclay was offered a job as a BBC radio producer and soon afterwards put together the team who performed the comedy show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (four series starting in 1964). Moving to television, Barclay oversaw Associated-Rediffusion Do Not Adjust Your Set
(1967–69).
Following the
Doctor... series (1969–77). One episode in that series involved a hotel proprietor and his wife and was written by John Cleese. Barclay said at the time that he thought there might be a series in the characters.[1] Later, Cleese created Fawlty Towers
for the BBC.
In 1975, he produced the
Mork and Mindy
".
Following criticismThe Fosters (ITV, 1976–77), had been a remake of a US show).
Barclay left LWT in 1983 and formed Humphrey Barclay Productions, which produced the media satire Granada Media International.
Though already in partial retirement, in April 2002, he joined Celador Productions as Development Executive.
Inheritance
In 2000, Barclay was adopted into the royal family of
lairdship
.
He is a descendant of
English Jamaica as the result of a debt.[4] In 2016, through an introduction via Verene Shepherd, the Jamaican historian of diaspora studies, Humphrey Barclay met with a distinguished African American descendant of one of the slaves freed by his ancestor.[5]
References
- ^ a b "British Film Institute biography of Humphrey Barclay".
- ^ Deans, Jason (6 January 2003). "Comic hero". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
- ^ "Humphrey Barclay Biography", Friends of Tafo.
- ^ Shepherd, Verene (24 February 2008). "Freedom in the era of slavery: The case of the Barclay brothers in Jamaica". The Gleaner. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
- ^ HONEYGHAN, PENDA (26 June 2016). "Legacies of slavery and freedom". Jamaica Observer. Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
External links
- Humphrey Barclay at IMDb