Keith Boak
Episodes Broadcast: 2005
Keith Boak was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1984 he graduated from
the University of Bristol with a degree in law, but his career path soon
took him into the theatre. Boak then worked as an assistant director at
Riverside Studios, and began making short films. He soon moved into
television, including an early assignment on DEF II where he
worked with Russell T Davies. Boak was a director by 1993, initially on
EastEnders. Other credits during the Nineties included The
Bill, Pie In The Sky and Harbour Lights. After the
turn of the century, he made episodes of shows like Holby City,
Merseybeat and The Royal.
When Davies was tasked with reviving Doctor Who, he recruited
Boak to direct the first set of episodes to be made for Christopher
Eccleston's Ninth Doctor: Rose and Aliens Of London / World War
Three. Unfortunately, the shoot proved to be enormously trying,
and some of the blame was laid at Boak's feet; he would not work on
Doctor Who again. Instead, he went on to programmes such as
Hotel Babylon, Casualty and Waterloo Road. In the
2010s, Boak directed for shows like Silent Witness, Death In
Paradise and New Tricks. He moved to Hollywood, where his
credits included the Superman prequel Krypton. Boak completed a
masters degree in law at the University of California, Los Angeles,
specialising in human rights. In addition to his television work, he
also began practising as a public defender, and served as a case analyst
for the California Innocence Project, a non-profit organisation which
aimed to identify and exonerate the wrongly convicted.
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