Michael E. Briant

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Michael E. Briant is best known as a British television director, but he is also a producer and actor.

When Michael was 21 he joined the BBC as an assistant floor manager in the drama department and a year later became a Production Assistant.

In 1966 he took a Directors Course and he subsequently directed series such as Z-Cars, Doctor Who and Warship. Howards Way

During his time on Doctor Who, he directed six serials, including three fondly-remembered adventures The Sea Devils, The Green Death and his personal favourite The Robots of Death, which was also his last involvement with the series. However, he is most proud of his subsequent direction of the BBC drama series Secret Army for which he directed episodes between 1978 and 1979. He later directed four of the six episodes of its sequel, Kessler and the thriller series Blood Money in which he cast many of the actors from Secret Army, before moving to the Netherlands to direct television there.

In the 1980s he went onto working directing Treasure Island, the EMMY award winning A TALE OF TWO CITIES, the feature film Tangiers, Hideaway and many more drama productions.