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Wallington, Jenny  person Producer on World in Action
Walsh, Michelle  person
Walton, Jack  person
Wardle, Tim  person
Ware, Julian   person
Ware, Tom  person
Warner, Mike  person
Warning, Flotation  person
Waterloo, Marcus  person
Waterston, Sam   person
Watkins, Peter  person b. 1936?

Following military service in the late 50s, where he was given a clerical post in Kent, Watkins made several 8mm, amateur films which were well received. While working at the BBC as an assistant producer in the early sixties, he was offered the chance to make a film about the Battle of Culloden by Huw Wheldon, then head of documentaries. The film - a dramatised documentary using non-professional actors to recreate the massacre of Bonnie Prince Charlie's highland army in 1746 was transmitted in 1964 to good reception. Reviews compared it to work of Ken Loach and Ken Russell and his next film The War Game was commissioned. However, its highly sensitive subject matter led to it being banned by the BBC rather than risk the fallout from the British government and general public.

Since then has worked largely in Europe where he continues to make angry, eloquent films in his trademark documentary style, though his work remains in the realm of cult classics due to its relative unavailability.
Watson, Paul  person The emergence in the UK of fly-on-the-wall documentary and, following that, reality television has often been traced to Paul Watson, a revered and controversial figure in British documentary.

From a background in art - he studied at the Royal College of Art and was a painter before becoming a filmmaker - he has credits as director, commissioning editor and executive producer, working at the BBC and Granada before setting up an independent production company (Priory Pictures) in 1992. Films such as Malcolm and Barbara and series such as The Family have firmly established him as a documentary maker of note.
Watson, Steve  person
Watt, Harry  person b. 1906 d. 1987

After time in the Merchant Navy and various jobs, Harry Watt joined the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit under John Grierson in 1932, also working on Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran (1934). He directed for the London unit of the March of Time series, before going on to make one of the most well-known films of the Documentary Film Movement: Night Mail (together with Basil Wright). Following Grierson's departure from the Film Unit and Cavalcanti's appointment as head, Watt turned to creating a form of story-documentary with films such as North Sea. His 1941 film Target for Tonight, produced with the Crown Film Unit, was the first British documentary to reach a wide audience in commercial cinemas. That year, he moved to Ealing Studios, where his feel for documentary realism informed his fiction films, albeit with mixed success.
Wattis, Nigel  person
Watts, Roy  person
Watts, Stuart  person
Watts, Tim  person
Watts, Vincent   person
Waugh, Dominic   person