Humphrey Burton

Directing

Born: 1931-03-21

Died: 2025-12-17

From: Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, UK

Gender: Male

Popularity: 0.1

Biography

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.

Awards & Nominations5 won · 0 nominated

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Knight Bachelor

2020

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Commander of the Order of the British Empire

2000

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series

Great Performances

1988

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Emmy Award

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Radio Academy Awards

Humphrey Burton

Biography

Awards & Nominations5 won · 0 nominated

Acting15 titles

Elton John: Mr. Superfunk

BBC Young Musician

The Opera House

Glenn Gould: Hereafter

Omnibus

The Golden Ring

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

Gordon Jacob

La Stupenda

Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen

The Story of Pantomime

New York, New York - Saturday in SoHo/Watching My Name Go By

How the BBC Began

Conversations with Glenn Gould

Directing71 titles

War and Peace

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 / Das Lied von der Erde

Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony

Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2

Candide

The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth

The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology

The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics

The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity

Beethoven Symphony No. 9

Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein

Die Fledermaus

The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein

Merry Christmas from Vienna

Ermione

Prince Igor

Bernstein/Beethoven

Lulu

The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis

Candide

Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 3,4,5

Andrea Chénier

Boris Godunov

Rodelinda

Rostropovich Life & Art

Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal

Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987

The Golden Ring

Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein)

Vincent in Brixton

Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Pelléas and Mélisande

Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction

Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives

Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987

Verdi: Requiem

Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide

Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert

Carlos Kleiber: Beethoven - Symphonies 4 & 7

Bernstein Brahms Symphonies

Liszt Annees de Pelerinage

Bach The Cello Suites

Mozart Requiem

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 5

Brahms Academic Festival, Tragic Overtures/ Variations on a Theme by Haydn/Serenade No. 2

Mozart Great Mass in C Minor; Ave Verum Corpus; Exsultate Jubilate

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8

Bernstein: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies No. 4 & 5

Bernstein Beethoven Overtures

Brahms The Piano Concertos

Ivo Pogorelich: Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven

Bach: St. John Passion

Ode to Freedom

A Gala Christmas in Vienna

Schumann: The Symphonies - Leonard Bernstein

Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 5 & 7 - Leonard Bernstein & Wiener Philharmoniker

Schubert Final Three Piano Sonatas D958, D959, D960 - Alfred Brendel