Known For
Production
Born
Nov 27, 1935
Died
Nov 22, 2007
Place of Birth
Hampstead, London, England, UK
Credits
81 titles
Verity Lambert
Biography
Verity Ann Lambert OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. Lambert began working in television in the 1950s. She began her career as a producer at the BBC by becoming the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who from 1963 until 1965. She left the BBC in 1969 and worked for other television companies, notably having a long association with Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and 1980s. Her many credits as producer include Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder, Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek, Love Soup and Eldorado. She also worked in the film industry for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. From 1985 she ran her own production company, Cinema Verity. She continued to work as a producer until the year she died. Women were rarely television producers in Britain at the beginning of Lambert's career. When she was appointed to Doctor Who in 1963, she was BBC Television's only female drama producer, as well as the youngest. The website of the Museum of Broadcast Communications hails her as "not only one of Britain's leading businesswomen, but possibly the most powerful member of the nation's entertainment industry ... Lambert has served as a symbol of the advances won by women in the media". The British Film Institute's Screenonline website describes Lambert as "one of those producers who can often create a fascinating small screen universe from a slim script and half-a-dozen congenial players." Description above from the Wikipedia article Verity Lambert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour
Producer
Tales of the Tardis
Producer
Doctor Who: Galaxy 4
Creator
Dr. Forever!
Herself
The Celestial Toyroom
Don't Lose Your Head: The Making of 'The Reign of Terror'
Herself (archive footage)
Vision On
Self (archive footage)
Daleks! Conquer and Destroy
Self
Daleks! Beyond the Screen
Self
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
(Archive Footage)
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
Creation of the Daleks
Herself
Doctor Who: Origins
Self
Masters of Sound
Self (archive footage)
Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS
Self
Over the Edge: The Story of 'The Edge of Destruction'
Self
Tales of Isop
Self
Love Soup
Producer
The Story of Doctor Who
Remembering 'The Aztecs'
Self (in photo) (archive footage)
The Cazalets
Producer
Jonathan Creek
Producer
A Night in with the Girls
A Perfect State
Producer
She's Out
Producer
Class Act
Producer
30 Years in the TARDIS
Herself
Comics
Producer
Running Late
Producer
So Haunt Me
Producer
G.B.H.
Executive Producer
Sleepers
Executive Producer
Sleepers
Executive Producer
Boys from the Bush
Producer
May to December
Producer
Evil Angels
Producer
American Roulette
Executive Producer
Doctor Who Then & Now
The Last Moguls
Self
Link
Executive Producer
Clockwise
Executive Producer
Dreamchild
Executive Producer
Morons from Outer Space
Executive Producer
Saigon: Year of the Cat
Producer
The Nation's Health
Executive Producer
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Executive Producer
Widows
Producer
The Flame Trees of Thika
Producer
Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
Executive Producer
Fox
Executive Producer