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Sydney Cecil Newman, OC (April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. After his return to Canada in 1970, Newman was appointed Acting Director of the Broadcast Programs Branch for the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) and then head of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He also occupied senior positions at the Canadian Film Development Corporation and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and acted as an advisor to the Secretary of State.
During his time in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, he worked first with the Associated British Corporation (ABC, now Thames Television), before moving across to the BBC in 1962, holding the role of Head of Drama with both organisations. During this phase of his career, he was responsible for initiating two hugely popular television programmes, the spy-fi series The Avengers and the science-fiction series Doctor Who, as well as overseeing the production of groundbreaking social realist drama series such as Armchair Theatre and The Wednesday Play.
The Museum of Broadcast Communications describes Newman as "the most significant agent in the development of British television drama." His obituary in The Guardian declared that "For ten brief but glorious years, Sydney Newman ... was the most important impresario in Britain ... His death marks not just the end of an era but the laying to rest of a whole philosophy of popular art."
In Quebec, as commissioner of the NFB, he attracted controversy for his decision to suppress distribution of several politically sensitive films by French Canadian directors.
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Filmography
all 94
Movies 84
Writer 50
Producer 29
TV Shows 10
Creator 6
Director 6
self 3
Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio (2016)
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2015)
Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)
Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven (2014)
Doctor Who: Deep Breath (2014)
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013)
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS (2013)
Doctor Who: She Said, He Said (2013)
Doctor Who: The Battle of Demon's Run: Two Days Later (2013)
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited (2013)
Doctor Who: The Snowmen (2012)
Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (2011)
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2 (2010)
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 1 (2010)
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars (2009)
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009)
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008)
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)
Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride (2006)
Creation of the Daleks (2006)
Doctor Who: Origins (2006)
Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion (2005)
Doctor Who (2005)
The Avengers (1998)
Doctor Who: The Missing Years (1998)
Doctor Who (1996)
I Was a Doctor Who Monster! (1996)
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion (1995)
30 Years in the TARDIS (1993)
Doctor Who: Survival (1989)
The Magical Eye (1989)
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (1983)
Utilities (1983)
Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora (1976)
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom (1976)
Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons (1975)
Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment (1975)
Doctor Who: The Ark in Space (1975)
Doctor Who: Robot (1975)
Doctor Who: The Time Monster (1972)
Doctor Who: Inferno (1970)
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones (1967)
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks (1966)
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet (1966)
Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)
Adam Adamant Lives! (1966)
Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
Tea Party (1965)
The Wednesday Play (1964)
The Trial of Dr. Fancy (1964)
Doctor Who: Marco Polo (1964)
Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction (1964)
Doctor Who: The Daleks (1964)
Doctor Who (1963)
Afternoon of a Nymph (1962)
Nothing to Pay (1962)
Plateau of Fear (1961)
The Omega Mystery (1961)
The Man Out There (1961)
The Avengers (1961)
Pathfinders to Mars (1960)
Lena, O My Lena (1960)
Police Surgeon (1960)
A Night Out (1960)
Hot Summer Night (1959)
The Criminals (1958)
The Greatest Man in the World (1958)
Space Command (1953)
The Man in the Peace Tower (1951)
Sing with the Commodores No. 1 (1951)
After Prison What? (1951)
Talent Showcase (1951)
Screaming Jets (1951)
Red Runs the Fraser (1949)
Summer Is for Kids (1949)
A Capital Plan (1949)
Newfoundland: Atlantic Province (1949)
Pay-Off In Pain (1948)
Inside The Atom (1948)
Canada Dances (1947)
Montreal by Night (1947)
Johnny at the Fair (1947)
Suffer Little Children (1945)
Flight 6 (1944)
Train Busters (1944)
Trans-Canada Express (1944)
Fighting Sea-Fleas (1944)
Banshees Over Canada (1943)
Careers and Cradles
Doctor Who: Dalek
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GenderMale
Birthday1917-04-01
Deathday1997-10-30 (80 years old)
Birth PlaceToronto, Canada
CitizenshipsCanada
Also Known AsSydney Newman (I), Sydney Cecil Newman, Sydney Nudelman, 시드니 뉴먼
AwardsOfficer of the Order of Canada
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