Michael Bakewell is a British

United Kingdom

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 television producer

Television producer

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. He is best known for his work during the 1960s, when he was the first Head of Plays at the BBC after Sydney Newman

Sydney Newman

Sydney Cecil Newman, OC was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s...

 divided the drama department into separate series, serials and plays divisions in 1963. Later, he produced plays for BBC2

BBC Two

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's Theatre 625

Theatre 625

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anthology strand, including John Hopkins'

John Hopkins (writer)

John Richard Hopkins was an English film, stage, and television writer.Born in southwest London, he graduated from St Catharine's College, Cambridge...

 highly regarded Talking to a Stranger

Talking to a Stranger

Talking to a Stranger is a British television drama, produced by the BBC and made up of four separate plays telling the story of one weekend from the viewpoints of four different members of the same family. Originally transmitted on BBC2 as part of the Theatre 625 anthology strand, the four...

quartet of linked plays.

He has also worked in radio drama

Radio drama

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, including adapting The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings is a high fantasy epic written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in...

into a 1981 radio series

The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series)

In 1981 the UK radio station BBC Radio 4 broadcast a dramatisation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in 26 half-hour stereo instalments...

 for the BBC. He was also the dubbing director for many of Manga Video UK's dubs (and many dubs for both Central Park Media

Central Park Media

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 and Manga Video UK), e.g., Cyber City Oedo, Devilman

Devilman

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai which originally started as an anime adaptation of the concept of Nagai's previous manga series, Demon Lord Dante. A 39 episode anime series was developed by Toei in 1972 and Nagai began Devilman as a manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen...

, Dominion Tank Police, Patlabor

Patlabor

Patlabor also known as , is an anime and manga franchise created by Headgear, a group consisting of director Mamoru Oshii, writer Kazunori Itō, mecha designer Yutaka Izubuchi, character designer Akemi Takada, and manga artist Masami Yūki.The popular franchise included a manga, a TV series, two OVA...

(Manga PAL version - movies 1 and 2), Tokyo Babylon

Tokyo Babylon

is a manga series created by Clamp. The series follows Subaru Sumeragi, the head of the Sumeragi clan, and his sister Hokuto as they work to protect Tokyo from a myriad of supernatural perils....

, Genocyber

Genocyber

is a cyberpunk Manga by Tony Takezaki. One volume of the manga was published and the story remains unfinished. It was adapted into a 5-part Anime OVA series from 1993 to 1994. The plot of the anime differs significantly from the manga. Both are notable for their extreme graphic violence.The OVA...

, Roujin Z

Roujin Z

is a 1991 Japanese anime film directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo and written by Katsuhiro Otomo.-Plot:Roujin Z is set in Japan during the early 21st century. A group of scientists and hospital administrators, under the direction of the Ministry of Public Welfare, have developed the Z-001, a...

, Angel Cop

Angel Cop

is a six-part original video animation created and directed by Ichirô Sakano. A manga adaptation written and illustrated by Taku Kitazaki was serialized in Newtype Magazine and reprinted as a Newtype 100% collection in 1990.- Plot :...

, Violence Jack

Violence Jack

is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Go Nagai in 1973. It has had several serializations and one-shot stories which have run in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s...

and many others.

From 1955 until 1972 he was the husband of Joan Bakewell; the couple had two children, Matthew and Harriet.

External links

• Michael Bakewell at the Internet Movie Database
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• Michael Bakewell's radio plays