Verity Lambert
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- November 27, 1935
- Died
- November 22, 2007 (aged 71)
- Birthplace
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
Biography
Verity Ann Lambert OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. Lambert began working in television in the 1950s. She began her career as a producer at the BBC by becoming the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who from 1963 until 1965. She left the BBC in 1969 and worked for other television companies, notably having a long association with Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and 1980s. Her many credits as producer include Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder, Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek, Love Soup and Eldorado. She also worked in the film industry for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. From 1985 she ran her own production company, Cinema Verity. She continued to work as a producer until the year she died. Women were rarely television producers in Britain at the beginning of Lambert's career. When she was appointed to Doctor Who in 1963, she was BBC Television's only female drama producer, as well as the youngest. The website of the Museum of Broadcast Communications hails her as "not only one of Britain's leading businesswomen, but possibly the most powerful member of the nation's entertainment industry ... Lambert has served as a symbol of the advances won by women in the media". The British Film Institute's Screenonline website describes Lambert as "one of those producers who can often create a fascinating small screen universe from a slim script and half-a-dozen congenial players." Description above from the Wikipedia article Verity Lambert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour
Movie · Producer
Tales of the Tardis
TV · Producer · 1 ep
Love Soup
TV · Producer · 18 eps
The Cazalets
TV · Producer · 6 eps
A Perfect State
TV · Producer · 7 eps
Jonathan Creek
TV · Producer · 1 ep
She's Out
TV · Producer · 6 eps
Class Act
TV · Producer, Executive Producer · 7 eps
Comics
TV · Producer · 2 eps
Running Late
Movie · Producer
So Haunt Me
TV · Producer · 18 eps
Sleepers
Movie · Executive Producer
G.B.H.
TV · Executive Producer · 7 eps
Boys from the Bush
TV · Producer · 20 eps
Sleepers
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
May to December
TV · Producer · 38 eps
Evil Angels
Movie · Producer
American Roulette
Movie · Executive Producer
Clockwise
Movie · Executive Producer
Link
Movie · Executive Producer
Dreamchild
Movie · Executive Producer
Morons from Outer Space
Movie · Executive Producer
Saigon: Year of the Cat
Movie · Producer
Widows
TV · Producer · 12 eps
Reilly: Ace of Spies
TV · Executive Producer · 12 eps
The Nation's Health
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
Movie · Executive Producer
The Flame Trees of Thika
TV · Producer, Executive Producer · 7 eps
Fox
TV · Executive Producer · 13 eps
Macbeth
Movie · Executive Producer
The Quatermass Conclusion
Movie · Executive Producer
Quatermass
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
The Sailor's Return
Movie · Executive Producer
Rock Follies
TV · Producer · 12 eps
The Naked Civil Servant
Movie · Executive Producer
Shoulder to Shoulder
TV · Producer · 6 eps
A.D.A.M.
Movie · Producer
Achilles Heel
Movie · Producer
Adam Adamant Lives!
TV · Producer · 29 eps
Doctor Who: The Chase
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: Galaxy 4
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: The Rescue
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: The Space Museum
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: The Time Meddler
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: The Romans
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: The Web Planet
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: The Crusade
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: Mission to the Unknown
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: The Aztecs
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: The Daleks
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: The Sensorites
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: Marco Polo
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: Planet of Giants
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child
Movie · Producer
Doctor Who
TV · Producer · 81 eps