AndrewBrown (producer)
- Producer
- Writer
Auckland-born Andrew Brown enjoyed a prolific career as a producer and writer in English television. After dropping out of university in Wellington to travel, Brown settled in London in the mid-1960s and began as a trainee script editor at the BBC, where he played a key role in winning the screen rights to the works of W Somerset Maugham. In the 1970s Brown produced high profile, BAFTA award-winning dramas Rock Follies and Edward & Mrs. Simpson. He returned downunder as writer/producer of Bad Blood, an acclaimed 1982 film based on the WWll-era murder rampage of Kiwi farmer Stan Graham. Brown died on 17 May 1994, at age 55.
Screenography
Awards
1993 BAFTA Awards (British Academy of Film and Television Arts, United Kingdom)
Best Drama Series/Serial: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
“Andrew Brown was one of the few genuinely original impresarios of British television, a man whose enthusiasm and ebullience was reflected in some of the great programmes he produced. ”