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Sir John Denis Forman OBE (13 October 1917 – 24 February 2013) was a Scottish executive in the British television industry long associated with the ITV contractor Granada, and with various charitable and governmental bodies in the arts.
Denis Forman, a television executive who served as steward to some of the most ambitious and popular British programs ever made, including “The Jewel in the Crown,” “Brideshead Revisited” and...
Mar 4, 2013 · Denis Forman, Go for Sisters, Granada Television, Pioneer, Pioneer Prize. Denis Forman, a TV exec who fostered some of Blighty’s most innovative and succesful skeins such as “The Jewel in...
Feb 25, 2013 · 25 February 2013. Sir Denis Forman served as Granada TV's chairman from 1974 to 1987. Sir Denis Forman, the former Granada TV chairman who was responsible for bringing programmes such as...
Mar 4, 2013 · Denis Forman, a TV exec who fostered some of Blighty’s most innovative and succesful skeins such as “The Jewel in the Crown” and “7 Up,” died Sunday night in a London nursing home. He was 95.
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 85. [Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: (Digital: 2012-10-02) Interview Date: 1989-05-11. Interviewers: John Taylor, Stephen Peet. Interviewee: Sir Denis Forman. Tape 1, Side 1. Denis Forman: I was born in the lowlands of Scotland in Dumfriesshire in the Parish which had.
Denis Forman was the television executive responsible for bringing the 1977 Booker Prize winner Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet to the small screen as The Jewel in the Crown. Forman, who died in 2013, lost a leg at Monte Cassino during the war when he was hit by a smoke cannister.
