David Blair (director)

David Blair is a BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning British film and television director.^[1]

Blair directed Common, a 2014 BBC One 90-minute made-for-television drama, written by Jimmy McGovern and starring Michelle Fairley, Nico Mirallegro and Michael Gambon, which sought to question some of the issues and challenges raised by England's common purpose legal doctrine.^[2]

Awards

• BAFTA Television Award for Best Drama Series (2007)

Partial filmography

• Wax or the discovery of television among the bees, (1991)^[3]
• Mystics (2003)
• The Fattest Man in Britain (2009)
• Best Laid Plans (2012)
• Bert and Dickie (2012)
• Common (2014)
• The Messenger (2015)

Television

• The Street (2006-09)

References

1. Ramachandran, Naman (23 July 2014). "David Blair shoots The Messenger". Cineuropa. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
2. "Common". BBC. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
3. This artwork was created with the support of The Experimental Television Center and it can be found in the "Experimental Television Center Archive". ETC- Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. Cornell University Library. Retrieved 26 June 2015.