NORMAN STONE

Norman Stone began his professional career in television as the youngest producer/director at the BBC. Moving from documentaries, and a pioneering children's show, into popular drama, Norman wrote and produced the highly acclaimed film ‘A Different Drummer’ about the blind and deaf Cornish poet, Jack Clemo, and four years later, his career was established with the huge, international success of ‘Shadowlands’. This gripping film drama on the love and grief of C.S. Lewis was the result of over 4 years of personal study and research. It starred Joss Ackland and Claire Bloom and collected two BAFTA awards, an International Emmy, and the Prague D'or for Best Director.

Other dramas included ‘Martin Luther – Heretic’ starring Jonathan Pryce; ‘New World’ with James Fox; ‘The Vision’ starring Dirk Bogarde, Lee Remick and Helena Bonham-Carter, as well as the award-winning ‘Burston Rebellion’ with Eileen Atkins and Bernard Hill. Stone then went on to direct the hugely successful four-part thriller series for BBC Scotland, ‘The Justice Game’ as well as the internationally acclaimed television movie ‘Pied Piper’ starring Peter O'Toole (a Granada TV/CBS co-production).

After creating the feature film script of ‘The End Time’ with writer Murray Watts, the two men collaborated again on ‘The Dream’, an adaptation of Dostoevsky's short story Dream of a Ridiculous Man for BBC2, which starred Jeremy Irons and was nominated for an ACE Award in the category of Best International Drama. Stone then went on to direct a number of top British Television dramas including two 'Miss Marples' and two 'Catherine Cooksons'. For one of these, ‘The Black Velvet Gown’, he received his second International Emmy.

Norman’s next role was to produce and direct ‘Tales from the Mad House’, an award-winning series of one-man dramas for BBC1, featuring such stars as Jonathan Pryce, Joss Ackland and Helen Baxendale, before making his first feature film – the gritty gangster movie Man Dancin', which garnered more international awards.

A string of popular dramatised documentaries followed, including ‘C.S. Lewis - Beyond Narnia’, ‘Florence Nightingale’, ‘The Narnia Code’ and finally ‘KJB - The Book that Changed the World’ (winner of The Epiphany Prize 2012).

Norman has just completed a major Feature Documentary, ‘The Final Fix’, about a remarkable new treatment for drug addiction, and he’s about to film a TV Drama on C.S. Lewis called ‘The Most Reluctant Convert’. He is also preparing a dramatically challenging feature film, ‘Raising Hell’, the true story of the battle to beat child prostitution in Victorian England.