Gregory Dark

Gregory Dark
has been described as combining the worst excesses of Lord Byron, the Mahatma Gandhi and Homer Simpson.

He has written, directed and produced in theatre, cinema and television; has assisted both Edward Bond and James Bond; has survived working with sharks, crocodiles, black mambas and a few actors, directors and producers more dangerous and poisonous than any of these.

He has directed five films, three of which he co-wrote (with Michael Bywater). And has worked on many more, in virtually every capacity short of hairdresser, including as Associate Producer to Producer Michael Codron on Michael Frayn’s “Clockwise”, starring John Cleese.

He has also directed over thirty theatrical ventures, from Sloane Square to Bogotá, sometimes to astounding effect. His production of ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ in Lima, for instance, ‘coincided’ with the Peruvian government’s declaration of a state of emergency.

To punish him for all his good fortune, he was given the job of overseeing the pre-production of ‘Eldorado’ on the Costa del Sol. His passport was therefore confiscated and he has been trying to get back to England ever since.

‘The Prophet of the New Millennium’ , ‘The God of the New Millennium’  and ‘Man of the New Millennium’ are already published, the last with a planned release date of August 2010.

The sub-titles of the books are also significant: ‘The Prophet …’ is sub-titled ‘A search for principles in an unprincipled age’; ‘The God …’ ‘A search for balance in an age of spin’; and ‘Man of the New Millennium’ ‘A search for us in an age of me’.

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Gregory Dark

Filmography

Directed and co-wrote (with Michael Bywater):

‘Superstitious Man’ (with Wayne Eagling);

‘Bitter Cherry’ (with Roger Daltrey, Denis Lawson);

‘The Cure’ (with Patrick Mower)

Director

‘Retribution’ (with Geoffrey Palmer, Simon Rouse)

Line Producer

2nd Unit: ‘City Slickers’ (dir Fraser Heston, with Billy Crystal)

‘The Eye of the Widow’ (dir AndrewMcClaglen, with Murray Abraham

Associate Producer

‘Clockwise’ (dir Christopher Morahan, with John Cleese)

Assistant director and Production Manager

‘She’ll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas’ (dir John Goldsmith, with Julie Walters)

Assistant Director

‘Dust’ (dir Milcho Malchevski, with Joseph Fiennes, David Warbeck)

Underwater Unit: ‘Never Say Never Again’ (dir Ricou Browning, with Sean Connery)

‘Death on Safari’ (dir Alan Berkinshaw, with Donald Pleasance)

‘The Appointment’ (dir Lindsey Vickers, with Edward Woodward);

‘Carry On, Emmannuelle’ (dir Gerald Thomas, with Kenneth Williams etc);

2nd Assistant Director

‘People that Time Forgot’ (dir Kevin Connor, with Patrick Wayne)

‘Seal Island’ (dir Ronnie Spenser, with Donald Douglas)

‘The ‘Copter Kids’ (dir Ronnie Spenser, with Derek Fowlds)

2nd Assistant Editor

‘The Big Sleep’ (dir Michael Winner, with Robert Mitchum)

3rd Assistant Director/ Runner

‘The Brain’ (dir Gerard Oury, with David Niven)

‘Two Gentlemen Sharing’ (dir Ted Kotcheff, with Judy Geeson)

‘The Italian Job’ (dir Peter Collinson, with Michael Caine)

Televisionography

Director

‘A Yank in London' (with Kelly Monteith)

‘Mañana’ TV pilot, Spain.

Line Producer

Pre-production, ‘El Dorado’ – budgeted and planned the construction.

Assistant Director

‘The Professionals’
 (3 Series, produced by Raymond Menmuir, various directors, with Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins)

‘Dick Turpin’ (3 Series, produced by Paul Knight and Sid Cole, various directors, with Richard O’Sullivan)

Stage Manager

‘Justice’ (produced by Jacky Stoller, various directors, with Margaret Lockwood);

‘Couples’ (directed by Robert Chetwyn);

Assistant Stage Manager

‘Mr Axelford’s Angel’ (dir John Frankau, with Michael Bryant)

Theatrography

Director

‘The Boundary’  UKTour (with Reginald Marsh, )

‘La Zarzuela del Mendigo’ (‘The Beggar’s Opera) – National Theatre of Peru

‘Public Demand’ – Bankside Globe

‘The Jewish Wife’ & ‘The Informer’ by Bertold Brecht (with Nigel Hawthorne), ‘The Boltons’;

‘Towards the End of a Long, Long Journey’ – the Little Theatre;

‘A Wet Winter’s Night Dream’ – (by Jonathan Marshall), the Bush Theatre;

‘The Seventh Proof’ (adapted by Nick Heppel, from ‘The Master and Margarita’ by Bulghakov), the Theatre Upstairs.

Assistant Director

‘Lear’ by Edward Bond (directed by Edward Bond, Burgtheater, Vienna, with Richard Munch);

Theatre Upstairs for 18 months (Assistant to Roger Croucher);

‘Lear’ by Edward Bond
(dir William Gaskill, with Harry Andrews, Mark McManus, Bob Hoskins, Gareth Hunt) – Royal Court, London;

‘Lovers of Viorne’ (‘L’Amante Anglaise’) by Marguerite Duras;
(dir Jonathan Hayles, with Peggy Ashcroft, Gordon Jackson)

Royal Court, London

Deputy Stage Manager

‘One At Night’ by Dennis Cannon (dir Roger Williams, with Roy Dotrice)

Assistant Stage Manager

‘Home’ by David Storey (dir Lindsay Anderson, with John Gielgud, RalphRichardson);

‘The Philanthropist’ by Christopher Hampton (dir Robert Kidd, with Alec McCowan, Charles Gray);

‘Three Months Gone’ by Donald Howarth (dir Ronald Eyre, with Diana Dors, Jill Bennett);

‘Man is Man’ by Bertold Brecht (dir William Gaskill, with Bob Hoskins, Georgia Brown)

Student Stage Manager

‘The Duchess of Malfi’ by John Webster (dir Peter Gill, with Judy Parfitt);

‘Widowers’ Houses’ by George Bernard Shaw (dir Michael Blakemore, with Nicola Pagett, Robin Ellis);

‘Inside Out’ by Frank Norman (dir Ken Campbell, with Nigel Hawthorne, Tom Chadbon)