Bill Bryden

Bill Bryden
CBE
Born
William Campbell Rough Bryden

(1942-04-12)12 April 1942
Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Died5 January 2022(2022-01-05) (aged 79)
OccupationTheatre director
Spouses
Deborah Morris
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(m. 1970; div. 1988)​
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(m. 2009)​
Children2
AwardsLaurence Olivier Award for Best Director (1985)

William Campbell Rough Bryden CBE (12 April 1942 – 5 January 2022) was a Scottish stage and film director and screenwriter.

Early life and career

He worked as a trainee with Scottish Television before becoming assistant director at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, in 1965. He then worked as a director at the Royal Court Theatre (1967–1971), the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh (1972–1975), Associate Director at the National Theatre (1975–1985); and as a visiting director in Glasgow and New York.[1] In 1990, he directed Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen, at the Royal Opera House.[2] He was Head of Television Drama at BBC Scotland (1984-1993) and has also done other work for film and television, as screenwriter, director and executive producer.[3]

Personal life and death

In 1970 he married the Hon. Deborah Morris, a potter, who was a daughter of IOC President Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin. They had two children, Dillon and Mary Kate. The couple divorced in 1988.

In the same year, he met actress Angela Douglas at a dinner party arranged by mutual friend Marsha Hunt.[4] They lived together in west London and were married at City Hall, New York City, in February 2009.[5]

National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C1316/11) with Bill Bryden in 2009 for its Legacy of the English Stage Company collection held by the British Library.[6]

Bryden died on 5 January 2022, at the age of 79.[7]

Honours

Bryden was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1993.

Work

Film director

Writer

Theatre director

Theatre programme for the 1990 production of The Ship
  • 1972: Kidnapped – Royal Lyceum
  • 1974: Romeo and Juliet - Old Vic
  • 1974: Spring Awakening – Old Vic
  • 1974: Romeo and Juliet – Old Vic
  • 1975: The Playboy of the Western World – Old Vic
  • 1976: Watch It Come Down – Old Vic then National Theatre
  • 1976: Il Campiello – National Theatre
  • 1976: Counting the Ways – National Theatre
  • 1977 (with Sebastian Graham Jones): The Passion – National Theatre
  • 1977: Old Movies – National Theatre
  • 1977: The Plough and the Stars – National Theatre
  • 1978 (with Sebastian Graham Jones): Lark Rise – National Theatre
  • 1978: American Buffalo – National Theatre
  • 1978 (with Sebastian Graham Jones): The World Turned Upside Down – National Theatre
  • 1978: The Long Voyage Home – National Theatre
  • 1978: Dispatches – National Theatre
  • 1979 (with Sebastian Graham Jones): Candleford – National Theatre
  • 1980: Hughie – National Theatre
  • 1980: The Iceman Cometh – National Theatre
  • 1980: The Nativity – National Theatre
  • 1980: The Crucible – National Theatre
  • 1981: Civilians (writer & director) - Scottish Theatre Company
  • 1982: Don Quixote - National Theatre
  • 1982: A Midsummer Night's Dream – National Theatre
  • 1983: Glengarry Glen Ross – National Theatre (World Premiere) then Mermaid Theatre, London
  • 1983: Cinderella - National Theatre
  • 1984: Golden Boy - National Theatre
  • 1985: Doomsday, presented with The Nativity and The Passion, as the Mysteries from medieval Mystery plays in a version by Tony Harrison – National Theatre
  • 1989: A Life in the Theatre - Theatre Royal then Strand Theatre, London
  • 1989: Op Hoop Van Zegen - Ro Theatre Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • 1990: The Ship (writer & director) Harland & Wolff Shed, Govan, Glasgow
  • 1994: A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev, starring Helen Mirren and John Hurt. Yvonne Arnaud Theatre and West End
  • 1994: The Big Picnic (writer & director) - Harland & Wolff, Govan, Glasgow
  • 1995: Son of Man - The Pit, RSC, London
  • 1996: Uncle Vanya - Minerva Theatre, Chichester then Albery Theare, London
  • 1999: The Mysteries - The Nativity - National Theatre
  • 1999: The Mysteries - The Passion - National Theatre
  • 1999: The Mysteries - Doomsday - National Theatre
  • 2001: The Good Hope – National Theatre
  • 2005: Romeo and Juliet – Birmingham Repertory Theatre
  • 2005: The Creeper – Theatre Royal Windsor

Opera director

Awards and nominations

Further reading

  • Craig, Cairns (1980), Fearful Selves: Character, Community and the Scottish Imagination, in Cencrastus No. 4, Winter 1980-81, pp. 29 - 32,ISSN 0264-0856
  • McArthur, Colin (1983), Tendencies in the New Scottish Cinema, in Hearn, Sheils G. (ed.), Cencrastus No. 13, Summer 1983, pp. 33 – 35, ISSN 0264-0856

References

  1. ^ Banham, Martin (7 March 1996). The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521446549 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "The Cunning Little Vixen | Opera review". The Guardian. 21 March 2010.
  3. ^ "Bill Bryden". BFI. Archived from the original on 23 August 2018.
  4. ^ Fox, Sue (14 August 1994). "How We Met: Bill Bryden and Angela Douglas". The Independent. London. Retrieved 9 May 2009.
  5. ^ "Carry On actress Angela Douglas on how she wrote her first book and – 35 years later – her follow-up". HeraldScotland. 20 October 2018.
  6. ^ National Life Stories, 'Bryden, Bill (1 of 6) National Life Stories Collection: The Legacy of the English Stage Company', The British Library Board, 2009. Retrieved 21 February 2018
  7. ^ Cameron, Lucinda (6 January 2022). "Theatre director Bill Bryden dies aged 79". The Independent. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  8. ^ Stevenson, Randall (1981), Scottish Theatre Company: First Days, First Nights, in Murray, Glen (ed.), Cencrastus No. 7, Winter 1981–82, pp. 10–13

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