Roy Battersby is a British

British people

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 TV director, noted for his work in drama productions such as Between The Lines, Inspector Morse

Inspector Morse (TV series)

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis. Dexter makes a cameo appearance in all but three of the episodes....

, Cracker

Cracker (UK TV series)

Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern. The series is centered on a criminal psychologist , Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by Robbie Coltrane. Set in Manchester, it consists of three series which were...

 and A Touch of Frost

A Touch of Frost (TV series)

A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield....

. Early in his career he made documentary features for the BBC

BBC

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 programmes Tomorrow's World

Tomorrow's World

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 and Towards Tomorrow. In 2005, his film Red Mercury

Red Mercury (film)

Red Mercury is a 2005 United Kingdom film starring Stockard Channing, Pete Postlethwaite, Juliet Stevenson, Ron Silver and David Bradley, and directed by Roy Battersby.-Plot summary:The film is a thriller about a terrorist kidnapping....

 was shown at the Montreal World Film Festival

Montreal World Film Festival

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.

He is married to actress Judy Loe

Judy Loe

Judith M. "Judy" Loe is an English actress. She was the widow of actor Richard Beckinsale and is now married to director Roy Battersby...

 and is the stepfather of actress Kate Beckinsale

Kate Beckinsale

Kathryn Bailey "Kate" Beckinsale is an English actress. After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in Much Ado About Nothing while still a student at Oxford University...

. Battersby was a Trotskyist

Trotskyism

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 for some years, becoming a full time organiser for the now defunct Workers Revolutionary Party. The association had ended by 1981, but the connnection led to him being blacklisted by the BBC.

Filmography

Year	Title	Episodes	Comments
1969	ITV Saturday Night Theatre	Machine	TV play written by Hugh Charteris
1970	The Body The Body (1970 film) The Body is a 1970 scientific documentary film directed and produced by Roy Battersby. In the film, external and internal cameras are used to showcase different parts of the human body. The film's narrators, Frank Finlay and Vanessa Redgrave, provide insightful commentary that combines the...		Documentary narrated by Vanessa Redgrave Vanessa Redgrave Vanessa Redgrave, CBE is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist.She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London's West End and Broadway, winning...  and Frank Finlay Frank Finlay Francis Finlay, CBE is an English stage, film and television actor.-Personal life:Finlay was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, the son of Margaret and Josiah Finlay, a butcher. A devout Catholic, he belongs to the British Catholic Stage Guild. He was educated at St...
1970	ITV Saturday Night Theatre	Roll on Four O'Clock	TV play written by Colin Welland Colin Welland Colin Welland is a British actor and screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his script for Chariots of Fire ,,,....
1972	Home and Away
1972	Play For Today	Better Than The Movies	TV play written by John Elliot and starring Bryan Marshall Bryan Marshall Bryan Marshall is an English actor, with a number of major credits in film and television to his name.Marshall was born in Clapham, London...
1973	Play For Today	The Operation	TV play written by Roger Smith
1974	Play For Today	Leeds United	TV play written by Colin Welland Colin Welland Colin Welland is a British actor and screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his script for Chariots of Fire ,,,....  and starring Elizabeth Spriggs Elizabeth Spriggs -Early life and career:Born in Buxton, Derbyshire as Elizabeth Jean Williams, Spriggs had an unhappy childhood and grew up entirely without affection, particularly from her distant, domineering father, a master builder and farmer. She studied at the Royal College of Music and taught speech and...
1975	Centre Play	Post Mortem
1975-76	Couples	9 episodes
1977	The Palestinian
1981	A Change In Time
1983	No Excuses
1983	The Home Front	At The Grammar
1983	The Home Front	Low Key Lady on High Speed Train
1983	The Home Front	The Poodle Strikes Back
1983	The Home Front	Walk in My Shoes
1986	King of the Ghetto	4 episodes
1986	Unnatural Causes	Evensong
1986	Screenplay	The Act
1990	The Play on One	Yellowbacks
1991	The Play on One	Escape From Kampala
1991	Inspector Morse Inspector Morse (TV series) Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis. Dexter makes a cameo appearance in all but three of the episodes....	Fat Chance	Crime drama starring John Thaw John Thaw John Edward Thaw, CBE was an English actor, who appeared in a range of television, stage and cinema roles, his most popular being police and legal dramas such as Redcap, The Sweeney, Inspector Morse and Kavanagh QC.-Early life:Thaw came from a working class background, having been born in Gorton,... , Kevin Whately Kevin Whately Kevin Whately is an English actor.Whately is known for his starring role as Neville Hope in the British television comedy Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, his role as Dr Jack Kerruish in the drama series Peak Practice, and as Robert "Robbie" Lewis in the crime dramas Inspector Morse and... , Maurice Denham Maurice Denham Maurice Denham OBE was an English character actor who appeared in over 100 television programmes and films throughout his long career.-Life and career:...  and Zoë Wanamaker Zoe Wanamaker Zoë Wanamaker, CBE is an American-British actress. She has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company; in films, including the Harry Potter series; and in a number of television productions, including a long-time role as Susan Harper in the sitcom My Family.-Early life and family:Wanamaker was... .
1992	Between The Lines	Lies and Damned Lies	Crime drama starring Neil Pearson Neil Pearson Neil Joshua Pearson is a British actor best known for his work on television.-Biography:Pearson grew up in Battersea, London, the son of a panel beater, who left home when he was five, and a legal secretary, and was educated at Woolverstone Hall School, Suffolk, a boarding school, where he first...
1992	Between The Lines	A Watch & Chain of Course	Crime drama starring Neil Pearson Neil Pearson Neil Joshua Pearson is a British actor best known for his work on television.-Biography:Pearson grew up in Battersea, London, the son of a panel beater, who left home when he was five, and a legal secretary, and was educated at Woolverstone Hall School, Suffolk, a boarding school, where he first...
1993	Between The Lines	Some Must Watch	Crime drama starring Neil Pearson Neil Pearson Neil Joshua Pearson is a British actor best known for his work on television.-Biography:Pearson grew up in Battersea, London, the son of a panel beater, who left home when he was five, and a legal secretary, and was educated at Woolverstone Hall School, Suffolk, a boarding school, where he first...
1993	Between The Lines	Manoeuvre 11	Crime drama starring Neil Pearson Neil Pearson Neil Joshua Pearson is a British actor best known for his work on television.-Biography:Pearson grew up in Battersea, London, the son of a panel beater, who left home when he was five, and a legal secretary, and was educated at Woolverstone Hall School, Suffolk, a boarding school, where he first...
1994	A Touch of Frost A Touch of Frost (TV series) A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield....	Widows and Orphans	Crime drama starring David Jason David Jason Sir David John White, OBE , better known by his stage name David Jason, is an English BAFTA award-winning actor. He is best known as the main character Derek "Del Boy" Trotter on the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind In The Willows and as detective Jack...
1994	Between The Lines	The End User: Part 1	Crime drama starring Neil Pearson Neil Pearson Neil Joshua Pearson is a British actor best known for his work on television.-Biography:Pearson grew up in Battersea, London, the son of a panel beater, who left home when he was five, and a legal secretary, and was educated at Woolverstone Hall School, Suffolk, a boarding school, where he first...
1994	Between The Lines	The End User: Part 2	Crime drama starring Neil Pearson Neil Pearson Neil Joshua Pearson is a British actor best known for his work on television.-Biography:Pearson grew up in Battersea, London, the son of a panel beater, who left home when he was five, and a legal secretary, and was educated at Woolverstone Hall School, Suffolk, a boarding school, where he first...
1995	Cracker Cracker (UK TV series) Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern. The series is centered on a criminal psychologist , Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by Robbie Coltrane. Set in Manchester, it consists of three series which were...	Brotherly Love Part 1	Crime drama starring Robbie Coltrane Robbie Coltrane Robbie Coltrane, OBE is a Scottish actor, comedian and author. He is known both for his role as Dr...  and Geraldine Somerville Geraldine Somerville Geraldine Margaret Agnew-Somerville is a British actress best known for her roles as Detective Sergeant Jane "Panhandle" Penhaligon in Cracker, and Lily Potter in the Harry Potter film series.-Early life:...
1995	Cracker Cracker (UK TV series) Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern. The series is centered on a criminal psychologist , Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by Robbie Coltrane. Set in Manchester, it consists of three series which were...	Brotherly Love Part 2	Crime drama starring Robbie Coltrane Robbie Coltrane Robbie Coltrane, OBE is a Scottish actor, comedian and author. He is known both for his role as Dr...  and Geraldine Somerville Geraldine Somerville Geraldine Margaret Agnew-Somerville is a British actress best known for her roles as Detective Sergeant Jane "Panhandle" Penhaligon in Cracker, and Lily Potter in the Harry Potter film series.-Early life:...
1995	Cracker Cracker (UK TV series) Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern. The series is centered on a criminal psychologist , Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by Robbie Coltrane. Set in Manchester, it consists of three series which were...	Brotherly Love Part 3	Crime drama starring Robbie Coltrane Robbie Coltrane Robbie Coltrane, OBE is a Scottish actor, comedian and author. He is known both for his role as Dr...  and Geraldine Somerville Geraldine Somerville Geraldine Margaret Agnew-Somerville is a British actress best known for her roles as Detective Sergeant Jane "Panhandle" Penhaligon in Cracker, and Lily Potter in the Harry Potter film series.-Early life:...
1995	A Touch of Frost A Touch of Frost (TV series) A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield....	Quarry	Crime drama starring David Jason David Jason Sir David John White, OBE , better known by his stage name David Jason, is an English BAFTA award-winning actor. He is best known as the main character Derek "Del Boy" Trotter on the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind In The Willows and as detective Jack...
1997	The Moth
1998	Space Island One	A Child Is Born
1999	Doomwatch: Winter Angel
2000	In Defence	2 episodes
2004	A Touch of Frost A Touch of Frost (TV series) A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield....	Dancing in the Dark	Crime drama starring David Jason David Jason Sir David John White, OBE , better known by his stage name David Jason, is an English BAFTA award-winning actor. He is best known as the main character Derek "Del Boy" Trotter on the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind In The Willows and as detective Jack...
2005	Red Mercury Red Mercury (film) Red Mercury is a 2005 United Kingdom film starring Stockard Channing, Pete Postlethwaite, Juliet Stevenson, Ron Silver and David Bradley, and directed by Roy Battersby.-Plot summary:The film is a thriller about a terrorist kidnapping....
2006	A Touch of Frost A Touch of Frost (TV series) A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield....	Endangered Species	Crime drama starring David Jason David Jason Sir David John White, OBE , better known by his stage name David Jason, is an English BAFTA award-winning actor. He is best known as the main character Derek "Del Boy" Trotter on the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind In The Willows and as detective Jack...

Awards

Year	Result	Award	Comments
1996	Won	BAFTA Alan Clarke award
2006	Nominated	Montréal World Film Festival Montreal World Film Festival The Montreal World Film Festival , founded in 1977, is one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF... Grand Prix des Amériques	for Red Mercury (2005)

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