Barry Hanson
Barry Hanson was a British film and television producer.
Works
Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday
A documentary about the making of The Long Good Friday, including interviews with John Mackenzie, stars Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, producer Barry Hanson and Phil Meheux.
Release Date2006-04-04
Charactersd Himself
Vote Count5
Lady Chatterley
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
Release Date1993-06-06
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count4
Vote Count25
ITV Playhouse
ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.
Release Date1967-09-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
The Play on One
A series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels.
Release Date1988-01-19
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Second City Firsts
A series of plays from Birmingham by new writers.
Release Date1973-10-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
The Long Good Friday
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
Release Date1980-11-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count426
Virtual Murder
Eccentric psychology professor Dr John Cornelius solves technologically-charged crimes with his partner Samantha Valentine, police contact Inspector Cadogan, and his HOD Professor Owen Griffiths.
Release Date1992-07-24
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count3
Out
Frank Ross returns from an eight-year prison sentence for a robbery that was thwarted because somebody 'grassed' the gang. Nobody knows who put the finger on him, but Ross is determined to find out and seeks revenge on those who betrayed him. Little by little, Ross pieces together the trail that leads to a dramatic conclusion.
Release Date1978-07-24
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count6
Vote Count5
Plays for Britain
An anthology series of six contemporary plays from writers at relatively early stages in their careers.
Release Date1976-04-06
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
Resort to Murder
Post-grad Joshua Penny investigates the murder of his mother in Brighton, who was killed after witnessing another murder. He delves into the local underworld to find the real killer, as police suspect his father.
Release Date1995-07-27
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count5
Vote Count1
Unnatural Pursuits
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.
Release Date1992-12-07
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
The Naked Civil Servant
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
Release Date1975-12-17
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count43
Wolcott
Newly promoted Black detective Winston Churchill Wolcott is transferred to a troubled London borough, where he becomes embroiled in a drug war and police corruption, dealing with cross-racial tensions and a persistent journalist.
Release Date1981-01-13
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
Out of the Blue
Alan makes films in the warehouse studio where he lives, with the help of his friends Rudy and Liz. Even Rudy's girlfriend, Julie, finds herself caught up in his plans. But when Alan falls in love with a beautiful young girl, Chirsty, and decides to create the perfect romance between them, life begins to imitate the film fantasy which has become an obsession for him.
Release Date1991-08-22
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count4
Morons from Outer Space
The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with the ship’s controls while Bernard is outside playing spaceball. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by...
Release Date1985-03-29
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count46
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
A rock star is kidnapped at the end of a concert.The record company ask the question is he worth more dead than alive?
Release Date1977-06-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Bloody Kids
Two boys pull a Saturday night prank on the police in a seaside British town.
Release Date1980-03-22
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count12
Girl
An episode of the BBC drama series Second City Firsts. Jackie is leaving the army. While waiting for her car to arrive, she encounters Corporal Harvey, the woman who used to be her lover.
Release Date1974-02-25
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count5
Runners
When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.
Release Date1983-08-18
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count5
The Paradise Run
Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromised into helping the enemy. However, desertion will not be a solution, and he finds himself more distressed than ever.
Release Date1976-04-05
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Broke
Francis and his wife, Elaine, are proprietors of a struggling window-covering business, agree to install curtains in an exclusive club patronized by Ron, a wealthy friend of theirs. After completing the job, the shop owner has great difficulty collecting payment for the job. His "friend" becomes scarce and Francis finds he has no legal foot to stand on since there is no written record of the informal transaction. With the couple's business floundering due to mounting debts, and their former friend Ron's crass attitude towards their predicament, anger and frustration reach the boiling point.
Release Date1991-07-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Very Like a Whale
Theme of a powerful and respected man tearing his life to pieces.
Release Date1981-01-02
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
Gangsters
Birmingham is a melting pot of races and every community has a stake in the city's underworld. When former SAS officer John Kline is released from prison after serving a sentence for murder, he becomes the unwilling catalyst in a gang war. Movie screened as part of Play of Today.
Release Date1975-01-09
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
Fast Hands
Jimmy is a talented young boxer. Every punch he throws is eagerly watched by his trainer, and resented by his girlfriend. His parents, however, aren't particularly interested – until a large car and what appears to be a handsome contract arrive at the door.
Release Date1976-05-03
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
If a Man Answers
Dogs are like their owners - grey-hounds are nasty, staffords are for fighting. You can't blame the dogs - it's nature.
Release Date1973-10-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Affront
A car mechanic faces prejudice at work because of his ethnicity.
Release Date1978-10-17
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
You and Me and Him
A man has a three-way conversation between himself, his inner thoughts and as a psychiatrist. Part of the BBC Thirty Minute Theatre strand.
Release Date1973-02-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Cork and Bottle
A disillusioned husband and wife take a trip across the Channel, hoping to find themselves. In fact they find the French are not what they expected.
Release Date1977-05-24
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
The Proofing Session
Graham, an executive, is ordered by his boss to look after a couple of out-of-town buyers - who make it clear they would like to visit a brothel.
Release Date1977-05-17
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Squire
Alfy is 30 and on the dole. So what does he want with a stuffed tern, a shooting stick, a Harris Tweed suit and a shotgun?
Release Date1974-11-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Waiting at the Field Gate
Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinction. Where does he draw the line?
Release Date1975-04-03
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Two Days That Shook the Branch
Des, an enthusiastic incompetent, always promises rather more that he can deliver.
Release Date1978-05-09
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
We Never Do What They Want
An everyday story of Alternative Society folk, beginning in 1969. It traced the developing relationship of three people from then until present 1978. Frank, a radical social worker just out of mental hospital after a nervous breakdown, was being nursed back to health by Linda, a hairdresser, in the absence of his 'girl friend. Joanna, on a social work project. By the second scene. Frank and Linda were married with a baby daughter, and Frank had opted for a cushy teaching job in a middle class school and even betrayed his Left-wing idealism to the point of joining the Labour Party.
Release Date1978-05-16
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Roadrunner
A young West Indian has to interrupt his rich international life to sort out some passport trouble at home. His lifestyle is very different from the simple one of his family in North London, leading to considerable tension.
Release Date1977-07-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Said the Preacher
"I like preaching... Only two things in my life have ever excited me as much: playing football and making love." But his congregation feel he's gone too far this time...
Release Date1972-05-06
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
It's Not Quite Cricket
Four people intend to register a protest at their firm's outing and cricket match. But it proves a strain on their team spirit.
Release Date1977-05-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Shuttlecock
Sam likes his children to be grown-up chaps. So nine-year-old Harry is at a disadvantage in the battle of wits that develops...
Release Date1976-05-11
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
One of the Boys
An evening's drinking by rugby players after a match gets out of hand.
Release Date1978-05-02
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Cold Harbour
A beautiful Chilean exile called Tina is stranded in a new country.
Release Date1978-04-25
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer