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    British children's television producer and director

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  1. Dorothea Brooking (née Smith Wright; 7 December 1916 – 23 March 1999) was an English children's television producer and director. She also contributed to works for television, mainly early in her career, and in other capacities.

  2. Dorothea Brooking was born on 7 December 1916 in Slough, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She was a producer and director, known for The Racketty Street Gang (1961), The Railway Children (1951) and A Castle and Sixpence (1954).

    • Producer, Director, Writer
    • December 7, 1916
    • Dorothea Brooking
    • March 23, 1999
  3. Dorothea Brooking acted with the Nutley local drama society (and was its president when she died) and worked for the church.

  4. May 3, 1999 · Dorothea Brooking, television drama producer, born December 1916; died March 23, 1999. It is unusual enough for a television producer to be commissioned to direct a remake of her own eight-year...

  5. Dorothea Brooking was an English children's television producer and director. She also contributed to works for television, mainly early in her career, and in other capacities.

  6. Apr 9, 1999 · YOUR EXCELLENT obituary of Dorothea Brooking [by June Averill, 6 April] fails to mention two very important things, writes Richard Wade.

  7. A sterling pioneer of children's television in Britain during the 1950s, Dorothea Brooking is credited with introducing the first true British television-viewing generation (the 1950s) to the literary works of Edith Nesbit and Frances Hodgson Burnett and their fascinating world of Edwardian childhood. Born into a theatrical family - her great ...

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