Humphrey Burton

Humphrey Burton

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.

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Movies Made by Humphrey Burton (74)

Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein) (2009)

Director

Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 3,4,5 (2008)

Director

Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 2,6,7 (2008)

Director

Sir Georg Solti The Maestro Vol. 1 (Rossini - Mendelssohn) (2007)

Director

Sir Georg Solti The Maestro Vol. 3 (Wagner - Richard Strauss) (2007)

Director

Brahms Academic Festival, Tragic Overtures/ Variations on a Theme by Haydn/Serenade No. 2 (2007)

Director

Bach The Cello Suites (2007)

Director

Rostropovich Life & Art (2007)

Director

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 5 (2007)

Director

Mozart: Requiem (2007)

Director

Mozart Great Mass in C Minor; Ave Verum Corpus; Exsultate Jubilate (2006)

Director

Bernstein in London: Verdi Requiem (2006)

Director

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 / Das Lied von der Erde (2005)

Director

Vincent in Brixton (2003)

Director

The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland (2002)

Director

Falstaff (2000)

Director

A Gala Christmas in Vienna (1998)

Director

Rodelinda (1998)

Director

Manon Lescaut (1997)

Director

Merry Christmas from Vienna (1996)

Director

Lulu (1996)

Director

Ermione (1995)

Director

Eugene Onegin (1994)

Director

Candide (1991)

Director

The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek (1991)

Producer

War and Peace (1991)

Director

Mozart Requiem (1991)

Director

Charles Mingus: Epitaph (1990)

Director

Boris Godunov (1990)

Director

Prince Igor (1990)

Director

Ode to Freedom (1989)

Director

Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide (1989)

Director

Candide (1988)

Director

Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1987)

Director

Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert (1987)

Director

Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987 (1987)

Director

Ivo Pogorelich: Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven (1987)

Director

Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987 (1987)

Director

Liszt Annees de Pelerinage (1986)

Director

The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein (1985)

Director

Bach: St. John Passion (1985)

Director

Andrea Chénier (1985)

Director

The Making Of West Side Story (1985)

Producer

Brahms The Piano Concertos (1984)

Director

Bernstein Brahms Symphonies (1984)

Director

Joseph Haydn Mass: In Tempore belli (1984)

Director

Die Fledermaus (1984)

Director

Carlos Kleiber: Beethoven - Symphonies 4 & 7 (1983)

Director

Verdi: Requiem (1982)

Director

Bernstein Beethoven Overtures (1978)

Director

Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (1977)

Director

Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach (1977)

Director

Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2 (1977)

Director

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 (1976)

Director

Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal (1976)

Director

The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax (1976)

Director

The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis (1976)

Director

The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology (1976)

Director

The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity (1976)

Director

The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics (1976)

Director

The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth (1976)

Director

Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives (1976)

Director

Bernstein: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies No. 4 & 5 (1975)

Director

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 (1975)

Director

The Marriage of Figaro (1974)

Producer

Trouble in Tahiti (1973)

Executive Producer

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (1973)

Director

Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction (1972)

Director

Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein (1970)

Director

Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony (1970)

Director

Benjamin Britten and His Festival (1967)

Executive Producer

The Golden Ring (1965)

Director

Elgar (1962)

Producer

Antonio Gaudí (1961)

Producer

Movies starring Humphrey Burton (13)

The Opera House (2017)

Self - Bbc Arts Reporter

Karajan's Magic and Myth (2014)

Self

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (2009)

Self (Archival Footage)

Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen (2008)

Self

Glenn Gould: Hereafter (2006)

Self

La Stupenda (1991)

Self

Marevna and Marika (1978)

Himself

The Story of Pantomime (1976)

Self

New York, New York - Saturday in SoHo/Watching My Name Go By (1976)

Presenter

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976)

Self - Host

Elton John: Mr. Superfunk (1971)

Self

The Golden Ring (1965)

Himself - Narrator

Gordon Jacob (1959)

Commentator

Same first name: Humphrey

Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Lestocq

Humphrey Jennings

Humphrey Pearson

Humphrey Jaeger

Humphrey Dixon

Same surname: Burton

Hilarie Burton Morgan

LeVar Burton

Tim Burton

Willie D. Burton

Corey Burton

Kate Burton

Norman Burton

Amanda Burton

John Burton

Jennifer Burton

William H. Burton Sr.

Tony Burton

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