Verity Lambert
Verity Ann Lambert OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. Lambert began working in television in the 1950s. She began her career as a producer at the BBC by becoming the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who from 1963 until 1965. She left the BBC in 1969 and worked for other television companies, notably having a long association with Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and 1980s. Her many credits as producer include Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder, Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek, Love Soup and Eldorado. She also worked in the film industry for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. From 1985 she ran her own production company, Cinema Verity. She continued to work as a producer until the year she died. Women were rarely television producers in Britain at the beginning of Lambert's career. When she was appointed to Doctor Who in 1963, she was BBC Television's only female drama producer, as well as the youngest. The website of the Museum of Broadcast Communications hails her as "not only one of Britain's leading businesswomen, but possibly the most powerful member of the nation's entertainment industry ... Lambert has served as a symbol of the advances won by women in the media". The British Film Institute's Screenonline website describes Lambert as "one of those producers who can often create a fascinating small screen universe from a slim script and half-a-dozen congenial players." Description above from the Wikipedia article Verity Lambert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
ProductionBirthday
November 27, 1935Deathday
November 22, 2007Gender
FemaleKnown Movie Credits
47Place of birth
Hampstead, London, England, UKAlso known as
Verity Ann LambertCast credits
30 Years in the TARDIS
HerselfDoctor Who: Origins
SelfThe Story of Doctor Who
Creation of the Daleks
HerselfOver the Edge: The Story of "The Edge of Destruction"
SelfInside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS
SelfMasters of Sound
Self (archive footage)Remembering 'The Aztecs'
Self (in photo) (archive footage)Vision On
(archive footage)Don't Lose Your Head
Herself (archive footage)Myth Makers 43: William Hartnell
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
SelfA Night in with the Girls
Crew credits
Clockwise
Executive ProducerEvil Angels
ProducerThe Naked Civil Servant
Executive ProducerMacbeth
Executive ProducerDoctor Who: The Aztecs
ProducerAchilles Heel
ProducerDoctor Who: An Unearthly Child
ProducerDreamchild
Executive ProducerSleepers
Executive ProducerLink
Executive ProducerMorons from Outer Space
Executive ProducerThe Sailor's Return
Executive ProducerAmerican Roulette
Executive ProducerDoctor Who: The Edge of Destruction
ProducerDoctor Who: The Daleks
ProducerDoctor Who: The Chase
ProducerDoctor Who: The Rescue
ProducerDoctor Who: Galaxy 4
ProducerDoctor Who: The Space Museum
ProducerDoctor Who: The Keys of Marinus
ProducerDoctor Who: The Time Meddler
Producer