Simon Cellan Jones

Simon Cellan-Jones is a Welsh television director and film director, who began his career as a production assistant in the mid-1980s, working on series such as Edge of Darkness. By the late 1980s he had worked his way up to become a director, and he gained credits on some of the most acclaimed British television productions of the 1990s. These included episodes of Cracker (1993) and Our Friends in the North (1996). He was nominated as the Best Newcomer at the British Academy Film Awards for his first feature film Some Voices (2000). Other television credits have included BBC One's Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004) and More4's The Trial of Tony Blair (2007). He is the brother of Rory Cellan-Jones and the son of fellow director James Cellan-Jones.

Works

Arthur the King

Over the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur. As the team is pushed to their outer limits of endurance in the race, Arthur redefines what victory, loyalty and friendship truly mean.

Release Date:2024-03-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:749

The Family Plan

Dan Morgan is many things: a devoted husband, a loving father, a celebrated car salesman. He's also a former assassin. And when his past catches up to his present, he's forced to take his unsuspecting family on a road trip unlike any other.

Release Date:2023-12-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1457

The Diplomat

In the midst of an international crisis, a career diplomat lands in a high-profile job she’s unsuited for, with tectonic implications for her marriage and her political future.

Release Date:2023-04-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:268

See

A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.

Release Date:2019-11-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2539

Years and Years

As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, members of the Lyons family converge on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next 15 years, the twists and turns of their everyday lives are explored as we find out if this ordinary family could change the world.

Release Date:2019-05-14

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:295

The Expanse

A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.

Release Date:2015-12-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2474

Marvel's Jessica Jones

After a tragic ending to her short-lived super hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases involving people with extraordinary abilities in New York City.

Release Date:2015-11-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:2349

Ballers

Looking at the lives of former and current football players, the show follows former superstar Spencer Strasmore as he gets his life on track in retirement while mentoring other current and former players through the daily grind of the business of football.

Release Date:2015-06-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:760

Bloodline

A dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of his parents' hotel, he threatens to expose the Rayburns' dark secrets and shameful past, pushing his siblings to the limits of family loyalty.

Release Date:2015-03-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:352

Manhattan

Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.

Release Date:2014-07-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:120

Klondike

The lives of two childhood best friends, Bill and Epstein, in the late 1890s as they flock to the gold rush capital in the untamed Yukon Territory. This man-versus-nature tale places our heroes in a land full of undiscovered wealth, but ravaged by harsh conditions, unpredictable weather and desperate, dangerous characters including greedy businessmen, seductive courtesans and native tribes witnessing the destruction of their people and land by opportunistic entrepreneurs.

Release Date:2014-01-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:83

The Politician's Husband

A drama about the shifting power in a marriage when the personal and political collide.

Release Date:2013-04-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:25

Magic City

Set in 1959 Miami, Florida shortly after the Cuban Revolution, Magic City tells the story of Ike Evans, the owner of Miami's most glamorous hotel, the Miramar Playa. Evans is forced to make an ill-fated deal with Miami mob boss Ben Diamond to ensure the success of his glitzy establishment.

Release Date:2012-03-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:88

Boardwalk Empire

Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.

Release Date:2010-09-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1098

On Expenses

Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses.

Release Date:2010-02-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Paradox

Mysterious images that show incidents 18 hours before they happen are transmitted from space. As a space scientist attempts to explain their source, detectives race against time to change the future.

Release Date:2009-11-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:24

Generation Kill

The first 40 days of the war in Iraq as seen through the eyes of an elite group of U.S. Marines who spearheaded the invasion along with an embedded Rolling Stone reporter. A vivid account of the soldiers and of the forces that guided them in an often-improvised initiative.

Release Date:2008-07-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:436

The Trial of Tony Blair

Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes

Release Date:2007-01-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Coup!

Dramatisation of the abortive real-life attempt by Simon Mann to organise a coup to take over Equatorial Guinea in 2004. The case achieved notoriety because one of the financial backers of the project was Sir Mark Thatcher, son of British ex-PM 'Margaret Thatcher'.

Release Date:2006-06-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Queen's Sister

An in-depth biopic of Princess Margaret from the days following her father's death in 1952 until the 1970s. She was known to be a flamboyant royal but she remained a stickler for protocol. She had many controversial romances and also infamously kissed the daughter of the US ambassador. Also the film gives some focus on what others thought of Margaret, from normal people of the era to a backbench MP opposed to her 1961 wedding. Written by Reece Lloyd

Release Date:2005-11-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr. Watson suspects something more and goes to his old friend Holmes, now retired and at very loose ends.

Release Date:2004-12-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:37

Eroica

British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport) has invited friends to listen to Beethoven conduct his new symphony for the first time. Among the aristocratic attendees are Count Dietrichstein (Tim Pigott-Smith), Countess Brunsvik (Claire Skinner), and composer Josef Haydn (Frank Finlay). The actual musical score is performed by the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner.

Release Date:2003-10-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

The One and Only

When Stevie meets Neil on the day he comes to deliver her brand new kitchen, it's already too late for love at first sight. Too late for both of them. Stevie is already five minutes pregnant by her Italian footballer husband. And too late for Neil too - his wife Jenny has already applied to adopt an African girl. But too late or otherwise, love at first sight is exactly what happens. How can Neil and Stevie get out of their mistaken marriages and into each others arms?

Release Date:2002-10-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:10

Some Voices

Schizophrenic Ray tries to adjust to the outside world after being released from an institution.

Release Date:2000-08-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:30

Storm Damage

A young teacher returns to the children’s care home where he grew up, and becomes involved with the lives of the troubled teenage children.

Release Date:2000-01-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

In Your Dreams

The second of three contemporary stories showing in the Love Bites 1997 season. Clare accuses fellow-student Jamie of raping her after their first date. Three months later they face each other in court.

Release Date:1997-12-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Our Friends in the North

An epic tale of a changing Britain over four decades, seen through the eyes of four friends.

Release Date:1996-01-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:21

Rik Mayall Presents: The Big One

Rik Mayall plays an estate agent who takes on the identity of a dead gangster.

Release Date:1995-01-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Cracker

The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.

Release Date:1993-09-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:107

Rik Mayall Presents

Showcasing the talent and versatility of its star, Rik Mayall Presents comprises six episodes of dark humour spread over two series, where he plays such diverse roles as a paranoid TV show host, an uncontrollable liar who pretends to be a gangster and a man on a date who is trapped in a cycle of escalating comic violence!

Release Date:1993-05-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

Bitter Harvest

A young black British woman goes to the Dominican Republic as an aid worker. When she goes missing, her parents make an emotional journey to piece together her story.

Release Date:1992-07-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Came Out, It Rained, Went Back In Again

A short film in which an innocent northern girl discovers her sexual identity on a trip to London, where she goes into a lesbian bar/club, and considers revealing her gayness to her mother.

Release Date:1991-08-07

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1

The Missing Finger

A cooking accident turns Sidney's romantic evening at home into a nightmarish chase across London

Release Date:1991-08-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Looking After Number One

Dick is a pigeon fancier. Jean sort of fancies Dick. When a stray bird brings them together, Jean's admiration grows and she discovers Dick's true feelings towards his feathered friends.

Release Date:1990-02-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Family Plan 2

The Morgans tear through Europe in search of the perfect action-packed family Christmas.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Bill

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

Release Date:1984-10-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:38

Sea-Change

An elderly man and his only son continue to interact, following the death of the son in World War 2.

Release Date:1976-09-10

Character:Schoolboy