ROBERT DAY

(11 September 1922 - 17 March 2017)

Robert Day was the epitome of the commercial filmmaker who could put his directorial touch on any type of film. In a long career he helmed sixteen feature films and over 120 television movies and series episodes. Starting as a clapper boy he progressed to operating the camera on many classic British films from 1941, including The Wooden Horse, The Holly and the Ivy, The Red Beret, The Man Between, An Inspector Calls and 1984 (the 1956 version). His first directing job was in 1956 on The Green Man, the Launder & Gilliat comedy with Alastair Sim. His other features included Grip of the Strangler and Corridors of Blood, both with Boris Karloff, First Man Into Space, Life in Emergency Ward 10, a spinoff from TV, Two-Way Stretch, The Rebel, She for Hammer, and four Tarzan pictures, two of which he co-wrote. He also co-wrote The Big Game starring Stephen Boyd. For UK television he had worked on The Buccaneers, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Avengers. Moving to the States he then directed for the TV series: of The F.B.I., Ironside, The Streets of San Francisco, McCloud, Kojak, Dallas, Hollywood Wives, Matlock and many others. He was married first to Eileen Pamela Day and then to actress Dorothy Provine. They had one son, the musician Robert Day Jr.

MICHAEL DARVELL