John Delbridge

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John Delbridge (* 1955 on the Channel Island of Guernsey ) is a British director , writer and producer . Delbridge made a name for himself primarily with film adaptations of the novels by authors Katie Fforde and Inga Lindström , each of which he directed several times.

Life

Delbridge went to school in England and took up his engineering degree there . After completing his studies, he worked, among other things, as an advertising photographer and musician . He attended directing seminars, worked as an assistant director and then worked as a director himself. He started his television career with knowledge and youth programs such as Mosquito , Pickwick Club and Head Jumps . He also directed cooking programs such as Besser essen in Deutschland and Guten Appetit . He remained loyal to younger audiences until the 1990s, with episodes of Hallo Spencer , Sesame Street and Children in Traffic . For these last-mentioned programs Delbridge worked partly as a screenwriter . In Canada, Delbridge directed and produced the family series Family Passion (German power of passion ).

In Germany, the Hamburg-based director has directed various television series such as St. Angela , Verbotene Liebe , In the Name of the Law , Alpha Team - The Lifesavers in the Operating Room and Unter den Linden - Das Haus Gravenhorst . For ZDF he directed various episodes of the successful series girl friends - friendship with heart as well as the series Die Albertis and Da geht Kalle . Another Delbridge work was directing the loose series Love, Babies, and a Big Heart . His repertoire also includes film adaptations of novels by the popular authors Rosamunde Pilcher , Inga Lindström , Katie Fforde , Utta Danella and Emilie Richards .

John Delbridge is a member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain and the Federation of German Directors (BVR).

Filmography

(The numbers in parentheses refer to the number of episodes that Delbridge directed.)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Information on John Delbridge's life and films. (PDF; 145 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Delbridge, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British director
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH guernsey