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Donald McWhinnie (16 October 1920 – 8 October 1987) was a British BBC executive and later a radio, television, and stage director. Educated at Rotherham Grammar School, McWhinnie worked for the BBC in administrative roles in the 1940s and 1950s and was drama Script Editor from 1951 to 1953.
Donald McWhinnie was born on 16 October 1920 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England, UK. Donald was a director and producer, known for Celebrity Playhouse (1981), Drama 61-67 (1961) and Sword of Honour (1967). Donald was married to Pauline Macaulay. Donald died on 8 October 1987 in London, England, UK.
Donald McWhinnie (16 October 1920 – 8 October 1987) was a British BBC executive and later a radio, television, and stage director. Educated at Rotherham Grammar School, McWhinnie worked for the BBC in administrative roles in the 1940s and 1950s and was drama Script Editor from 1951 to 1953.
Donald McWhinnie (October 16, 1920 - October 08, 1987) British Radio, TV, Film and Stage Director. In 1953 at the very moment when writers were becoming aware of the need for a different emphasis involving changes in dramatic diction and structure, Donald McWhinnie was made deputy to Val Gielgud in the Radio Drama department at the BBC.
Jun 13, 2020 · 24 McWhinnie relayed this to Val Gielgud in a letter dated 21 February 1957, quoted in James Knowlson, Damned to Fame (London: Bloomsbury, 1996), 431. In his biography, Knowlson stresses that ‘Beckett’s depression was very slow to lift, as he began to experience doubt as to whether there was any way out of the impasse into which The ...
Mapp & Lucia is a British television series, set in the fictional Sussex coastal town of Tilling and based on three 1930s novels by E. F. Benson, beginning with Mapp and Lucia.
Donald McWhinnie's production of The Duchess of Malfi in 1960 played as part of our first season as the newly created Royal Shakespeare Company, before transferring to our London base at the Aldwych Theatre.
