John Crockett

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John Angus Basil Crockett (born January 31, 1918 in Hampshire , England , † October 11, 1986 in Newlyn , Cornwall , England) was a stage and television director .

biography

Crockett was born in 1918, the second eldest son of Colonel Basil Crockett DSO .

He attended Bryanston School . In 1938 he studied art at Goldsmiths' College , New Cross , London, Great Britain. He also studied theater design at Slade School and taught at the London Theater Studio .

In 1940 he married Anne Marguritte Stern. She was the eldest daughter of William Joseph Stern OBE, an eminent physicist.

In 1944 he founded a theater company called Compass Players . The tour company aimed to present high quality theater to an audience that had no access to it. Their base was Crockett's own home, an old house and estate in Gloucestershire . Crockett retired as artistic director in 1951, and the theater company disbanded the following year. In the late 1950s and early 1960s he produced plays for the Birmingham Repertory Theater and the Dundee Repertory Theater .

Crockett directed the 1964 Doctor Who episode The Aztecs , one of the most respected black and white episodes. Actor John Ringham extensively praised Crockett in the 2002 DVD release. He also performed in the fourth episode of the fourth season ( Marco Polo ) by Dr. Who, The Wall of Lies , director.

From September 1969 to December 1976 he was an art and theater teacher at the Downside School in Somerset .

Crockett died in 1986 at the age of 68. The Crocketts were parents of two children, daughter Mary and son Antony Crockett ( FRCGP ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Peter Billingham: Theater of Conscience 1939-53: A Study of Four Touring British Community Theaters . Ed .: Routledge Harwood Contemporary Theater Studies 2001.
  2. ^ Indirection: A Memoir 1909–1947 Charles Brasch. Oxford University Press 1980, accessed June 15, 2019 .
  3. ^ V&A Museum, London, UK. June 15, 2019, accessed June 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b The Raven Downside School
  5. ^ Mary Crockett Prints & Paintings. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Mary Crockett. In: Penwith Gallery. Retrieved June 15, 2019 (UK English).
personal data
SURNAME Crockett, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crockett, John Angus Basil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British stage and television director
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Hampshire , England
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1986
Place of death Newlyn , Cornwall , England