{"id":5923,"date":"2017-11-05T11:58:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T16:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=5923"},"modified":"2017-11-05T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T16:58:01","slug":"paddy-russell-1928-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=5923","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Russell 1928-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the great pioneering Television Directors of her generation, Paddy Russell<\/a><\/b>, has died at the age of 89.<\/p>\n

Patricia Russell, known to all as Paddy, had a long and distinguished career as one of the first female Directors in British television. She trained as an actor attending the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Before long she realised that she was more at home behind the scenes moving to become a stage manager.<\/p>\n

In the 1950’s Television was crying out for theatre staff to work in the new medium and Russell was recruited as a production assistant, working with the famed director Rudolph Cartier<\/b>. Acting as the director’s eyes and ears on the studio floor, Russell worked on some of the most innovative and pioneering dramas of the day including the Quatermass<\/i> science-fiction serials as well as the 1954 adaptation of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/i> starring Peter Cushing<\/b>.<\/p>\n

In 1963 she became a director herself, directing many episodes of the soap opera Compact<\/i>. Over the next twenty years, she worked on many of the best known classic television series.
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\nHer first encounter with Doctor Who came in 1966 when she became the first female Director to work on the show. She helmed the First Doctor story The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Eve<\/i>. One advantage the newish Director had when faced with the notoriously irascible William Hartnell<\/b> was the fact that for the majority of the story he was not playing The Doctor, but another character, The Abbot of Amboise.<\/p>\n

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