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Raban, William  person Artist working in film and video
Radeljic, Markan  person
Raeburn, Mark  person
Rains, Paul   person
Rajesh,   person
Ralfe, Oliver  person
Randall, T  person
Ranken, Richard  person
Ranon, Michael  person
Rawles, Neil  person
Read, Nick  person
Reed, Alex  person
Reed, Dan  person
Reed, Dan (Daniel)  person
Rees, Hefin   person
Rees, Laurence  person Laurence Rees is currently Creative Director of BBC History. In 1994, he launched the BBC's historical biography strand Reputations. He was also editor of Timewatch for a number of years and under his editorship the strand won three Emmy Awards in three years. He wrote and produced The Nazis:A Warning from History which won him many awards including a BAFTA, an International Documentary Association Award and a Broadcasting Press Guild Award. He went on to write and produce three other acclaimed series on World War Two,War of the Century, Horror in the East and Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'.

In 2005 Rees received an honorary doctorate from the University of Sheffield for his contribution to history and television and has written several books.
Regan, Leo  person
Reich, Allon  person
Reisz, Karel   person b. 1926 d. 2002

Born in 1926, in the Czech mill town of Ostrava, close to the Polish border, Karel Reisz was forced to leave his Nazi-occupied homeland at the age of 12. He came to England, where he eventually served in the RAF, before studying natural sciences at Cambridge. He later became a teacher and a writer for film journals, one of which, Sequence, he co-founded with Lindsay Anderson and Gavin Lambert. Along with Anderson and Tony Richardson, Reisz aimed to bring a version of auteurism to British film, and they did as much with the documentary movement Free Cinema. He produced and directed a number of advertising films and Free Cinema documentary shorts, including Momma Don't Allow in 1956 and We Are the Lambeth Boys in 1959. Anderson, Richardson and Reisz all went on to direct features in the British 'new wave' social realist genre that drew from their experiences in Free Cinema. Reisz began making feature films in 1960 with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, one of the most acceptable products of the new wave period. His career moved to Hollywood in the mid-1970s with mixed success, but The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) became a critically acclaimed masterpiece. His final years were spent concentrating on theatre direction in London, Dublin and Paris, and whilst his work has influenced more than a generation of British filmmakers, what he did for the stage - Beckett, Pinter, Tom Murphy, Terence Rattigan - has changed the game for several more to come. Reisz died in London at the age of 76.
Renton, Polly  person