Paul Wilmshurst

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Paul Wilmshurst
Born Paul Dominic Wilmshurst
(1961-12-15) 15 December 1961 (age 63)
London, England
Occupation Television Director
Website http://www.paulwilmshurst.com

Paul Wilmshurst is a British television director. He has worked on three seasons of the Sky/Cinemax action-adventure series Strike Back[1] and directed on the first series of David S. Goyer's historical fantasy series Da Vinci's Demons[2][3] for StarZ and BBC America. He has received an International Emmy Award [4]and two BAFTA nominations.[5]

Education

He attended The Leys School, studied English at Churchill College, Cambridge and took a post-graduate course in journalism at City University, London.

Career

After graduating, Wilmshurst started working in news and current affairs, then worked for a number of years as a researcher and director in formatted factual programmes, before persuading Channel 4 to send him to Las Vegas to make an authored documentary about a mafia lawyer.[6][7] Mob Law was joint runner-up for the Joris Ivens Award at IDFA[8] and won awards at the Las Vegas and San Francisco film festivals. He went on to make feature documentaries collaborating with novelist Luke Rhinehart[9] and comedian Frank Skinner,[10] before directing two separate year-long, three-part series for Channel 4: White Tribe (with Darcus Howe)[11] and The Gambler (with Jonathan Rendall).[12][13] He then wrote and directed a handful of dramadocs: about cocaine dealing;[14] pseudocide; the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge;[15] alcoholism in the workplace;[16][17] and being kidnapped by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, telling the story of Chris Moon.[18] Wilmshurst also wrote, produced and directed the 90-minute BBC dramatised documentary Hiroshima[19] - shown in over 30 countries on the 60th anniversary of the bombing - which won an International Emmy for Best Documentary[4] and a BAFTA for Best Visual Effects,[20] shared between Gareth Edwards, Mike Tucker and Red Vision.

In November 2008 actress Lucy Cohu won an international Emmy award for Best Actress for her role in the true-life drama Forgiven.[21] The drama was well reviewed at the time [22][23] and was later listed as one of the 50 Best Television Programmes of the Decade in The Times: "32: Forgiven (2006) It is easy to condemn child abuse. It is much harder to try to understand it, to engage with the abuser and stop it from happening. Paul Wilmshurst’s harrowing drama with Lucy Cohu showed unbelievable courage." [24] He also wrote and directed the CBBC miniseries Runaway,[25] produced and directed the BAFTA-nominated [26] children's series "Combat Kids",[27] as well as directing episodes of long-running crime series Law & Order: UK, Silent Witness and Trial & Retribution.

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2014 Doctor Who Director "Kill the Moon" (2014)
"Mummy on the Orient Express" (2014)
"Last Christmas" (2014)
2013 Strike Back: Shadow Warfare Director Episodes 5 & 6
2012 Da Vinci's Demons Director Episode 5 "The Tower"
Episode 6 "The Devil"
2012 Strike Back: Vengeance Director Episodes 3 & 4
2011 Strike Back: Project Dawn Director Episodes 7 & 8
2010 Combat Kids Director, Producer Episodes 1, 2 & 3
2010 Law & Order: UK Director Shaken
2010 Silent Witness Director Home (Parts 1 & 2)
2009 Runaway Director, Writer, Producer Episodes 1, 2 & 3
2008 Trial & Retribution Director Conviction (Parts 1 & 2)
2007 Forgiven Director, Writer, Producer
2006 I Shouldn't Be Alive Director, Writer, Producer Kidnapped in the Killing Fields
2005 Hiroshima Director, Writer, Producer
2004 Pissed on the Job Director, Writer, Producer
2003 Seven Wonders of the Industrial World Director, Writer, Producer The Brooklyn Bridge
2003 Dogumentary Director, Writer, Producer Rewind the Summer
2001 Frank Skinner on Frank Skinner Director, Producer Biography of comedian Frank Skinner
2000 The Gambler Director With Jonathan Rendall
2000 White Tribe Director, Producer Documentary series with Darcus Howe
2000 Secrets & Lines Director, Writer, Producer Inside the world of cocaine dealers
1999 Diceworld Director, Producer Documentary series with Luke Rhinehart
1998 A Little Bit of Elvis Director, Producer Frank Skinner and Elvis Presley's blue velvet shirt
1998 Mob Law Director, Writer A film portrait of Oscar Goodman

References

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External links

  • [1] Profile page with agent Curtis Brown
  • [2] Personal website
  • [3] IMDB page
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