Humphrey Burton
Director
87
Movies
6
TV Shows
Author, broadcaster, director and producer. First Head of Music and Arts for BBC Television 1965-1967. Resumed the position again from 1975-1981 after an eight year absence in commercial television as a founder-member of London Weekend Television. For his work as a director, he has won four Emmy Awards, two British Academy Awards and as a presenter received the Royal Television Society Silver medal and Sony Gold Award.
Behind the Camera
BBC Young Musician
Creator
Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony
Director
The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
Director
Andrea Chénier
Director
The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics
Director
The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein
Consulting Producer
Schumann: The Symphonies - Leonard Bernstein
Director
Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
Director
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Director
War and Peace
Director
The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology
Director
Die Fledermaus
Director
Boris Godunov
Director
Mozart Requiem
Director
Elgar
Productor
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Director
The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis
Director
The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax
Director
Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide
Director
Leonard Bernstein Conducts West Side Story
Productor
Charles Mingus: Epitaph
Director
The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth
Director
Sir Georg Solti The Maestro Vol. 3 (Wagner - Richard Strauss)
Director
Lulu
Director
Rodelinda
Director
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 5 & 7 - Leonard Bernstein & Wiener Philharmoniker
Director
The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek
Productor
Candide
Director
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2
Director
Carlos Kleiber: Beethoven - Symphonies 4 & 7
Director
As Actor/Actress
Omnibus
Self - Presenter
BBC Young Musician
Self - Host
How the BBC Began
Self
Elton John: Mr. Superfunk
Self
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
Self (archival footage)
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self - Host
Filmstar Karajan
Self
The Opera House
Self - BBC Arts Reporter
Conversations with Glenn Gould
Interviewer
The Story of Pantomime
Self
New York, New York - Saturday in SoHo/Watching My Name Go By
Presenter
The Golden Ring
Himself - Narrator
Gordon Jacob
Commentator
Glenn Gould: Au delà du temps
Self
La Stupenda
Self