Patrick Dromgoole was born on 30 August 1930 in Iquique, Tarapacá, Chile. He is a producer and director, known for Robin of Sherwood (1984), Pretenders (1972) and Suspense (1962). He has been married to June Morrow since 1991. He was previously married to Jennifer Davis.
Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.
Release Date2017-11-25
Charactersd Himself
Robin of Sherwood was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network. In America it was retitled Robin Hood and shown on the premium cable TV channel Showtime and on PBS. The show starred Michael Praed and Jason Connery as two different incarnations of the title character. Unlike previous adaptations of the Robin Hood legend, Robin of Sherwood combined a gritty, authentic production design with elements of real-life history, 20th century fiction, and pagan myth. The series is also notable for its haunting title music by Clannad, which won a BAFTA award.
Release Date1984-04-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count26
Vote Count85
Two young journalists simulate a murder, but the scheme backfires when the mock victim disappears.
Release Date1965-10-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
Release Date1982-01-12
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count112
Vote Count8
A young American couple inherits an English castle, only to find that it is haunted by the spirit of a disgraced ancestor, doomed to stay on the estate because of his cowardice. The only way he can escape is if one of his descendants performs an heroic act, something he intends to get the husband to do.
Release Date1986-12-31
DepartmentProduction
JobSupervising Producer
Vote Count27
The Master of Ballantrae is a 1984 TV movie based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.[2] It was a co production between the US and England for the Hallmark Hall of Fame
Release Date1984-01-31
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
A family settles in an old castle with plans to, among other things, turn its former cemetery into a swimming pool. However, soon they find out that, in ancient times, pagan rituals took place there involving the sacrifice of young virgins. When an evil entity starts luring young boy Mark into killing himself in order to become the next sacrificial offering, something must be done to save him. Written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin who wrote many episodes of Dr. Who.
Release Date1987-07-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Egyptologist Robin Ellis and American reporter Eva Marie Saint uncover King Tut's burial site but wealthy profiteer Raymond Burr tries to make sure that the valuable artifacts in its chambers never leave the country.
Release Date1980-05-08
DepartmentProduction
JobSupervising Producer
Vote Count7
Nigel Rhodes plays a boy who, while riding his wooden rocking horse, can predict which horse will win at the race.
Release Date1977-01-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
The ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares.
Release Date1974-12-31
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
Alice is determined to buy a flash new hat despite her husband not giving her the money.
Release Date1967-07-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Little Match Girl is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a dying child's hopes and dreams, and was first published in 1845. This adaptation was made for Harlech TV and broadcast on 28th December 1986 and starred Twiggy and Roger Daltrey, and features the song 'Mistletoe and Wine' which became a Christmas number one for Cliff Richard in 1988, the biggest selling record of that year.
Release Date1986-12-28
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems. Reluctant at first, Moreau slowly learns the true nature of the camp, including the meaning of the "transports" on which people leave. With a world-class orchestra (made up of people interned in the camp) and a cast of children, Moreau stages a show to end all shows.
Release Date1991-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count9
At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark an unknown mole in the KGB to reveal himself; the endeavor eventually has repercussions which none of the initial players could have predicted.
Release Date1988-03-29
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
This series strips away the elaborate medieval view of Camelot, and presents Arthur as the chief of a small Celt tribe in Dark-Ages Britain, a century or two after the withdrawal of Rome. Arthur struggles to weave the scattered tribes of Celts, Jutes, etc. into a union that can effectively oppose the Saxon invaders who are arriving in Britain in growing numbers. He is aided by his adoptive father, Llud, and his foster brother, Kai, who is himself a Saxon foundling.
Release Date1972-12-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count3
Mr. Fisher is invited to a TV studio following the filming of his family's encounter with a bailiff. However, there are problems with the footage.
Release Date1974-08-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Towards the end of their lives, two men from very different worlds discover that one of them was in love with the other one's wife for more than thirty years.
Release Date1983-08-23
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
A young member of a choir becomes friends with a ghost in a school of English cathedral.
Release Date1993-12-30
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and followed the "Scotland Yard" series of shorts also introduced by Edgar Lustgarten. Production was sporadic (presumably filling gaps in the Edgar Wallace schedule), the first three released Nov-Dec 1962, a second batch of three released Sept/Oct 1963, two more in Feb 1965, one in Dec 1965 and a final batch (in colour) Sept 1966 to March 1967. The usual Merton Park recipe of familiar British actors in tightly plotted screenplays (based on real cases) with better than usual B movies production standards. All thirteen have now (Oct 2012) been released on DVD by Network.
Release Date1962-01-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
This is the inspiring, epic journey of a noble warrior's quest to prove his worth, his might, and his destined fate to become the next ruler of Britain.
Release Date1975-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Barry Ovis (Brian Rix) is Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for European Affairs, Sir William Mainwaring-Brown (Warren Mitchell). Sir William has a very active libido and gets up to non-portfolio activities. Ovis has to cover for him (usually very badly), and misunderstandings then pile on top of misunderstandings.
Release Date1973-10-03
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count13
Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands are attending, with all their guilty secrets...
Release Date1996-04-07
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Executive Producer
Vote Count3
A asylum patient intrudes upon a house party referring to the guest of honor—Count Dracula—as "Master." Moments later he insists he does not know the Count and is led back to his cell. Dr. Van Helsing is called to consult on the case. Hypnotized, the patient recounts events in Transylvania, including an attack by Dracula's brides…
Release Date1968-11-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
In a sleepy English village surrounded by a megalithic stone circle, an astrophysicist and his teenage son arrive to research the standing stones, but end up delving into the past in ways they never expected.
Release Date1977-01-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count7
Vote Count13
Film "Graceless Go I" based of the 1969 novel of the same name by Anthony Storey. A young and crass Yorkshire footballer and teacher embroils himself in a messy tussle with a drug-and-drink-addicted psychologist and his alluring missus. Explores the psychological turmoil of the three deeply troubled and unhinged characters.
Release Date1974-10-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
David McCallum stars as the rebellious Alan Breck Stewart, and this ambitious serial (a co-production between HTV and Germany's Tele-Munchen) also features a host of British character actors, including Bill Simpson, Patrick Allen, Andrew Keir, Patrick Magee and Frank Windsor. When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's bleak Scottish house to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Luckily for the lad, he strikes up a friendship with Alan Breck Stewart, who is on the run after Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat at Culloden. When a ship's captain tries to kill Breck for his money, the two manage to get to land and set out for Edinburgh, dodging the ruthless Redcoats along the way.
Release Date1979-04-07
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count13
Vote Count9
Sky is a mystically-oriented children's science fantasy television serial made for ITV by HTV and broadcast in seven parts from April 7 to May 14, 1975. A mysterious alien boy with strange solid blue eyes, the eponymous Sky, finds himself on Earth. He uses his psychic powers for achieve his goal of ensuring a way back home. Sky finds the very world soul of Earth in the form of nature, only to reject him the way an immune system might an infection. In his quest to return home, he joins his destiny with that of three human children. The serial was written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, also known for their scripts for Doctor Who and a fantasy television series for children, Into the Labyrinth. Although the series was kept on 2" videotape into the 1990s, during a transfer to film stock episodes 3 and 7 were damaged beyond repair. The series was finally released by Network DVD in May 2009, with the damaged segments replaced by inferior, but watchable, VHS copies of the episodes.
Release Date1975-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count4
Into the Labyrinth is a British children's television series produced by HTV for the ITV network between 1980 and 1982. Three series, each consisting of seven 25-minute episodes, were produced and directed by Peter Graham Scott. The series was created by Scott along with Bob Baker, who had previously written several stories for Doctor Who.
Release Date1981-05-13
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count21
Vote Count6
Anthology series in which characters find themselves in weird and scary situations. Not evoked by the supernatural but by other people.
Release Date1970-06-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
A 'machinegunner' (West Country slang for a debt-collector) turns amateur sleuth, but finds himself in hot water with local criminals.
Release Date1976-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
An old woman's possessions are auctioned, and orchestral conductor Timothy Clare and his family move into her large, though rather gloomy and dilapidated, old house in Bristol. It soon becomes clear that this is a house full of secrets, and that Mrs. Betterton had good reason to leave with her young granddaughter, the ethereal, otherworldly Emily; after a series of frightening experiences and disturbing discoveries - including a walled-up room containing a skeleton - the Clares realise that they are not the only occupants.
Release Date1978-10-08
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
Two one-act plays explore love and loneliness. In "Table by the Window" an aging fashion model contrives a reunion with her ex-husband, a politician ruined by scandal, and their passion is rekindled. In "Table Number Seven" a meek woman harbors a secret love for a man accused of fraud and sex offenses, forcing her to take a stand for the first time in her life.
Release Date1983-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count6
Jenny's War is a 1985 war television serial set during World War II, made by HTV in association with Columbia Pictures. It is directed by and written by Steve Gethers. The screenplay is based on the novel with the same name of Jack Stoneley. In the UK it was shown as four 50 minute episodes on the ITV network, while in the United States it was syndicated under the Operation Prime Time banner by MCA TV. The serial stars Dyan Cannon, Nigel Hawthorne, Robert Hardy Christopher Cazenove and Hugh Grant, and is about a mother, Jenny Baines, who searches for her son Peter, who was shot down over Germany, and who she believes is still alive.
Release Date1985-06-03
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
A 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted in 1948 for a film of the same name with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Dr. Ravic (Anthony Hopkins) is an Austrian doctor who helps Jews escape from the Nazis. In 1939, he meets Joan Madou (Lesley-Anne Down), a woman he saves from suicide, and their relationship flourishes until he is arrested as a refugee without documentation and realizes he has some unfinished business with the Nazis. After a prolonged separation, without explanation, the two are finally reunited and struggle to put their relationship back on the right course as mayhem breaks out all around them.
Release Date1984-12-19
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count10
Two children travel back in time and attempt to help a Black slave boy who possesses strange powers.
Release Date1976-01-02
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count7
Vote Count1
Release Date1988-10-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
A Class by Himself was a British sitcom, which aired from 1971 to 1972. The half-hour series was made by Harlech Television and starred John Le Mesurier of Dad's Army fame as Lord Bleasham.
Release Date1971-01-14
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count6
An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.
Release Date1982-12-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Mrs Isobel Manners lives a large Victorian house with her two grown up sons; Geoffrey and Edward. Mrs Manners is convinced that someone is trying to murder her.
Release Date1965-06-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Ben Lewis works for an investment group looking to buy the former home of Ferenc Davos. However Davos daughter Anna starts making strange claims that her step mother has murdered him and she knows where to body is buried
Release Date1967-03-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
After she misses her train, a young woman is forced to hitch a ride back to town. After managing to get away from a lecherous trucker, she is given a ride by a good-looking but somewhat mysterious young man, who she comes to suspect may be a dangerous escapee from a mental asylum.
Release Date1975-04-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count13
A psychiatrist plots to murder his wife so he can be with his mistress, but his wife mysteriously disappears before he can carry out his plan.
Release Date1974-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count8
70s Butlins documentary, part of a series of films directed by Tony Palmer, which was announced in The Stage [The Stage, 25 July 1974, p.14] "Tony Palmer is directing a new series with Harriet Crawley which will be seen in the HTV area. Tentatively titled Harriet, it will feature Miss Crawley in a number of roles each of which, as it were, puts her on the spot. For example, she will go up (and down) with a group of sky divers, work with an elephant trainer in a circus, become an operatic soprano (she will actually sing in a performance of Carmen), and for a time be a hell's angel's moll. Patrick Dromgoole is the executive producer of this one."
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Two well meaning spinsters' plans in reforming an old jailbird, receive a set back, when unexpectedly into their possession comes a substantial amount of money, which was not made by the Royal Mint.
Release Date1966-04-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
