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Researched and directed scores of short films including the first film of The Beatles in the Liverpool Cavern Club and a film about the painter L.S. Lowry in , Mr Lowry.
: Leslie Woodhead was a staff Director/Producer with Granada TV of Manchester, England. All his films during this period were made for Granada. Woodhead directed and produced more than films for Granada’s “World in Action” current affairs series. He was also Series Editor from to From and , Woodhead also made a dozen Documentary Specials, including “The Stones in the Park” () about the Rolling Stones celebrated Free concert in Hyde Park. He also directed filmed Dramas by Arthur Hopcraft and Jim Allen. Woodhead&#;s major work at Granada in the s and s was in pioneering Dramatised Documentaries, and in Anthropological Films for the Disappearing World series.
Since , Leslie Woodhead has worked as a freelance writer, producer and director on films such as The Hunt for Bin Laden (ITV/Smithsonian ) 9/11 The Day that Changed the World (ITV/Smithsonian ), and How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin (
Synopsis
In the spring of , like two million other men of his generation, eighteen-year-old Leslie Woodhead received a summons to serve Her Majesty. Charting his progress from the austerity of post-war Halifax, via comically bleak RAF training camps and the grim, isolated Joint Services School for Linguistics, My Life As A Spy takes us finally to Berlin and the front line of the Cold War. In the ruins of a city gripped by espionage and paranoia, Leslie Woodhead was hurled into maturity and discovered his vocation as an observer and documenter of people.
This is both a slice of Cold War history and a poignant tale of how our lives can be formed by events and experiences we barely comprehend at the time.
'[a] delightfully irreverent memoir. . . Woodhead's memories exude a wonderful sense of nostalgia for a world of lost innocence that to anyone over 60 is instantly recognisable' Sunday Times
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Suffolk festival's lifetime award to documentary maker
Mr Woodhead said it was "a completely unexpected thrill". "Thank you so much," he added.
Mr Woodhead was born in Glasgow in and lived much of his early life in Halifax in Yorkshire.
He began his career at Granada Television in Manchester in after reading English at Cambridge.
The drama documentary unit he created at Granada won a top award from the Royal Television Society.
His two-hour special called Invasion concerned Soviet intervention in Eastern Europe and was the first British docudrama to be aired on American network television.
He made 10 films for Granada's Disappearing World series, including documentaries in Africa, Nepal, the South Pacific and China.
Five films on the Mursi, nomadic cattle-herding people in south-west Ethiopia, were awarded a prize by the Royal Anthropological Institute.
In , he won BAFTA's Desmond Davies Award for his creative contribution to television.
Since leaving Granada in to pursue his own projects, Mr Woodhead has continued to produce and direct major dramatised documentaries, including films about the downing of Pan Am and the Exxon Valdez
Who is Leslie Woodhead?
Leslie Woodhead is an award-winning British documentary filmmaker.
For his National Service commencing in , he served in Fife at the Joint Services School for Linguists where he was taught Russian. and posted to West Berlin to monitor the communications of Soviet pilots flying in and out of East Germany. "The experience I've come to realise since that it shaped my continuing obsession with what was going on in eastern Europe and particularly the Iron Curtain at that time."
Woodhead first made his name as a reporter for Granada Television's flagship current affairs series World in Action. He remained with Granada for 28 years. Woodhead was among the first exponents of docudrama, a format which allowed him to explore daily life of those "behind the wall" during the Cold War, when journalists had little direct access. - among them his films Invasion, about Soviet invasion and the Prague Spring of and Strike, which deals with the rise of Solidarnosc in Poland. In his documentary film A Cry From The Grave, which documents, hour by hour, the atrocities of the Srebrenica massacre, won awards at four film festivals.
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