Geoff Lindsey
Encyclopedia
Geoff Lindsey is a British
writer and director who has written episodes for television series including the popular BBC
soap opera
EastEnders
and The Bill
.
Lindsey trained in directing at the Bournemouth Film School, where he wrote and directed the short film The Band Parts starring Graham Fellows
. In 1999 he was selected for the Carlton
Screenwriters course. This led to his writing the anthology tribute Inspector Morse
: Rest In Peace, and to his first television episode commissions. As a lead writer on the soap opera Family Affairs
, he wrote the UK's first ever interactive soap episodes.
Lindsey directed Michael Palin
in the short How to Use Your Coconuts for the DVD
of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
. With BreakThru Films, he wrote and directed the short film The Clap starring Steve Furst
which was a finalist in Turner Classic Movies
Classic Shorts 2005.
He wrote the screenplay and devised the musical score of BreakThru Films' The Flying Machine
, for which he also directed the live action component.
United Kingdom
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writer and director who has written episodes for television series including the popular BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
EastEnders
EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
and The Bill
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
.
Lindsey trained in directing at the Bournemouth Film School, where he wrote and directed the short film The Band Parts starring Graham Fellows
Graham Fellows
Graham David Fellows is an English comedy actor and musician, best known for creating the characters of John Shuttleworth and Jilted John.-Early life:...
. In 1999 he was selected for the Carlton
Carlton Television
Carlton Television was the ITV franchise holder for London and the surrounding counties including the cities of Solihull and Coventry of the West Midlands, south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire,...
Screenwriters course. This led to his writing the anthology tribute Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse is a fictional character in the eponymous series of detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, as well as the 33-episode 1987–2000 television adaptation of the same name, in which the character was portrayed by John Thaw. Morse is a senior CID officer with the Thames Valley...
: Rest In Peace, and to his first television episode commissions. As a lead writer on the soap opera Family Affairs
Family Affairs
Family Affairs was a British soap opera broadcast on Five, from 1997 to 2005. It was the second programme to be broadcast on the channel on 30 March 1997, the channel's launch night...
, he wrote the UK's first ever interactive soap episodes.
Lindsey directed Michael Palin
Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin, CBE FRGS is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries....
in the short How to Use Your Coconuts for the DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1974 British comedy film written and performed by the comedy group Monty Python , and directed by Gilliam and Jones...
. With BreakThru Films, he wrote and directed the short film The Clap starring Steve Furst
Steve Furst
Steven Larry Furst is a comedian, actor and writer. Furst says his father told him that he arrived as an immigrant from Hungary with "nothing but a violin under my arm"...
which was a finalist in Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies is a movie-oriented cable television channel, owned by the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary of Time Warner, featuring commercial-free classic movies, mostly from the Turner Entertainment and MGM, United Artists, RKO and Warner Bros. film libraries...
Classic Shorts 2005.
He wrote the screenplay and devised the musical score of BreakThru Films' The Flying Machine
The Flying Machine (film)
The Flying Machine is a 2011 3-D film being produced by BreakThru Films. The film is directed by Martin Clapp, Geoff Lindsey and Marek Skrobecki, and stars Heather Graham and Lang Lang.- Plot :...
, for which he also directed the live action component.