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Patrick Lau(I)

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Born and brought up in Hong Kong. Trained at Granada Television, UK and directed many major television drama and documentary films for the BBC, ITV & C4 that have taken him to Hungary, Cambodia, Madagascar, India, Mexico, Czech Republic, Australia, France, Berlin, & Ireland.

Artists he has worked with include Sir Ian McKellen, Richard E Grant, Toby Stephens, Sir Nigel Hawthorn, Jude Law, Juliet Stevenson, Robert Carlyle, Janet McTeer, Jack Dee, John Thaw, Jonny Lee Miller, Iain Glenn & Sir Ian Holm.

After winning the Independent Television Authority Award as a university undergraduate, he became one of the very few ethnic Chinese who directed professionally both in the theatre and on television in the 1970's onwards including a wide range of classical and contemporary plays in over 60 theatre productions in London, Edinburgh, Cambridge & other UK cities as well as in Australia and Hong Kong.
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 2 nominations total

    Known for

    The Fragile Heart (1996)
    The Fragile Heart
    7.8
    TV Series
    • Director
    McCallum (1995)
    McCallum
    7.7
    TV Series
    • Director
    Joanne Froggatt, David Harewood, Gordon Kennedy, Sam Troughton, and Jonas Armstrong in Robin Hood (2006)
    Robin Hood
    7.4
    TV Series
    • Director
    The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991)
    The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    8.7
    TV Series
    • Director

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    • Lark Rise to Candleford (2008)
      Lark Rise to Candleford
      8.2
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2009–2011
    • Joanne Froggatt, David Harewood, Gordon Kennedy, Sam Troughton, and Jonas Armstrong in Robin Hood (2006)
      Robin Hood
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2009
    • Colin Buchanan and Warren Clarke in Dalziel and Pascoe (1996)
      Dalziel and Pascoe
      7.5
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2002–2007
    • Casualty (1986)
      Casualty
      6.1
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2006
    • Amanda Burton, Emilia Fox, Sam Barnard, David Caves, and Genesis Lynea in Silent Witness (1996)
      Silent Witness
      7.9
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2004
    • David Tennant in The Deputy (2004)
      The Deputy
      7.8
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2004
    • The Glass (2001)
      The Glass
      7.2
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2001
    • Iain Glen and Andrew Lee Potts in Anchor Me (2000)
      Anchor Me
      7.3
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2000
    • Trial by Fire (1999)
      Trial by Fire
      6.6
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 1999
    • Richard E. Grant in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999)
      The Scarlet Pimpernel
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1999
    • Phyllis Logan, Maggie O'Neill, Vincent Regan, and Fred Ward in Invasion Earth (1998)
      Invasion Earth
      6.2
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 1998
    • The Ambassador (1998)
      The Ambassador
      7.2
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1998
    • The Fragile Heart (1996)
      The Fragile Heart
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1996
    • Soldier Soldier (1991)
      Soldier Soldier
      6.8
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1996
    • McCallum (1995)
      McCallum
      7.7
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1995

    Producer



    • The Sunset Channel (2018)
      The Sunset Channel
      7.0
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2018

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    • Other works
      He directed Charles Lawrence's play, "My Fat Friend", at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, Kent, England with Hayley Mills and Ian Lavender in the cast.

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