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Sydney Newman. 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 ...
- October 30, 1997 (aged 80), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Sydney Cecil Nudelman, April 1, 1917, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sydney Newman was born on 1 April 1917 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a writer and producer, known for The Avengers (1998), The Avengers (1961) and Space Command (1953). He was married to Elizabeth McRae. He died on 30 October 1997 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Nov 23, 2018 · Sports. Sydney Newman and the beginnings of TV's Doctor Who. Who knew? A Canadian drama head at the BBC was present at the birth of the Time Lord, in 1963. CBC Archives · Posted: Nov 23, 2018...
Nov 1, 2023 · In 1963, Sydney Newman was the BBC's Head of Drama with responsibility for all current shows and the remit to create new ones. In this clip from the BBC Oral History Collection he describes the...
100 years ago this April 1st, Sydney Newman was born. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was an ebullient Canadian émigré that worked as a television executive in Britain, first for independent network ABC as a producer, then for the BBC as Head of Drama.
J. R. Southall. April 1st, 2017 would have been the 100th birthday of Sydney Newman, the Toronto-born television and film producer who was the entrepreneurial spirit responsible for the birth of Doctor Who back in 1963, and who is now the subject of an unofficial new book – The Man Who Thought Outside the Box: The Life and Legacy of Doctor ...
Nov 1, 2023 · Head of drama Sydney Newman, producer Verity Lambert and director Waris Hussein were the chief creators of Doctor Who. Together with other members of the production team, they were pivotal in...
