British producer and director Peter Graham Scott died 5 August 2007. Born in East Sheen, Surrey, England, on 27 October 1923, he directed, produced, edited, and wrote for both the big screen and television.
He began acting in the late 1930s, and then realized his true passion lay behind the camera, and moved toward directing in the early 1940s. He directed several wartime propaganda films before joining the Royal Artillery in World War II, starting in 1943. That service ended suddenyl after “an accident involving explosives,” according to The Independent, and Scott went back to directing and then editing movies. He got into television as a BBC trainee in 1952.
His genre credits as a producer or director include television episodes for: Into the Labyrinth (1981), Children of the Stones (1977), The Prisoner (1967), and The Avengers (1965), as well as films and tv movies such as: The Canterville Ghost (1986), The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb (1980), Captain Clegg (1962), The Headless Ghost (1959), 2000 Minus 60 (1958), and Panic at Madame Tussaud’s (1948).
He is survived by his wife, the former Mimi Martell, whom he married in 1950, and two daughters. One of their sons died in a car crash in 2004; the other of cancer earlier this year.