Dan Zeff
Episodes Broadcast: 2006
Dan Zeff's career in television began circa 1990, when he worked in a
variety of junior positions. In 1994, he was one of the winners of the
Lloyds Bank Channel 4 Film Challenge, launching his career as a
director. The following year, Zeff won a BAFTA for the children's
telefilm Coping With Christmas. He wrote and directed a variety
of short films, including Sweetnightgoodheart with the future
Tenth/Fourteenth Doctor, David Tennant. As the turn of the century
approached, Zeff began to work more frequently on episodic television,
such as At Home With The Braithwaites, Linda Green, The
Worst Week Of My Life and Ideal.
Linda Green brought Zeff into contact with Phil Collinson, who
subsequently became the producer of Doctor Who. As a result, Zeff
was hired to direct Tennant in 2006's offbeat Love & Monsters. Amongst his
credits later in the decade were Agatha Christie's Marple and
Lost In Austen. Equally comfortable with comedy and drama, the
2010s saw Zeff directing everything from Pramface (for which he
also wrote a script) to Ice Cream Girls to Siblings to
The Collection. His 2011 telefilm Hattie, about the
relationship between actors Hattie Jacques and John LeMesurier, remains
the highest-rated programme in the history of BBC Four. Zeff's work in
the Twenties included episodes of the children's science-fiction series
Silverpoint.
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