Bill Bain (director)


Bill Bain was an Australian television and film director.

Biography

Australia

He was a school teacher who joined the ABC in the 1950s.
In Australia he directed the country's first TV pantomime for Christmas in 1959.
He also directed the TV plays Corinth House and Funnel Web.

Britain

He directed numerous episodes of British television series, including Emerald Soup, The Avengers, Redcap, and Armchair Theatre. For Amicus he directed a feature film What Ever Happened to Jack and Jill?.
Bain returned to Australia briefly in 1973 where he lamented the quality of local television. He came back in 1975 to attempt to set up a $1 million feature about opal mining. "For too long we've been raped by other people who have come in, made a film and then left."
He won an Emmy Award in 1975 for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for his work on the Upstairs, Downstairs episode "The Sudden Storm".
In 1968 he married the British actress Rosemary Frankau and they had two sons Matthew and Sam Bain.
He left Australia in 1963 but returned for three months in 1979 to be a consultant at the Film and Television School. He died at his home in London, aged 52.

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