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Charles St John Wallace Furneaux
(born 1957) is a British television producer and documentary maker. He began his career as an Assistant Producer with the
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, becoming a Commissioning Editor at
Channel 4
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in 1994. Furneaux then went to
Talkback Thames
Talkback Thames (stylised as talkbackTHAMES) was a British television production company, a division of Fremantle (part of the RTL Group, which in turn is owned by Bertelsmann). It was formed by the merger of Talkback Productions and Thames ...
in 2003 as Head of Specialist Factual and Documentaries resigning in 2007 to manage his own production company, Kaboom Film & TV.
Career
Award-winning productions of Furneaux include ''The Natural History of the Chicken'', which won an Emmy Award in the category of 'Outstanding Science and Nature Programming- Long Form' in 2002. ''
Touching the Void'' won
BAFTA's 2004 Alexander Korda award for the outstanding British film of the year. ''
The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
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'', in 2009, won two BAFTA Awards and one Monte Carlo Golden Nymph Award, and the documentary ''
Treblinka: Inside Hitler's Secret Death Camp'' won a Cine Golden Eagle Award in the History category of the Televised Documentary & Performance Division in 2014. Furneaux also produced ''
Diana: In Her Own Words'', which broadcast on 6 August 2017 and became Channel 4's "most-watched documentary since 2014", peaking with 4.1 million viewers.
Personal life
Furneaux read Modern History at
Durham University (
University College
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), graduating with a 2:1 degree in 1978.
Furneaux is a former participant in the
''Up'' series, an ongoing documentary series that follows the lives of fourteen British citizens in seven-year intervals, beginning when they were seven years old in 1964. Furneaux, one of the fourteen, declined to participate in the series after the ''21 Up'' episode, broadcast in 1977.
After Charles declined to appear in ''28 Up'', during a subsequent phone conversation, director
Michael Apted
Michael David Apted, (10 February 1941 – 7 January 2021) was a British television and film director and producer.
Apted began working in television and directed the '' Up'' documentary series (1964–2019). He later directed '' Coal Miner's ...
, by his own admission, "went berserk", which destroyed the relationship to the degree that Charles has refused to participate in all subsequent films.
Allison Pearson, writing for ''
The Telegraph
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Australia
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'', reports that Apted alleged Furneaux had filed a lawsuit aimed at "remov
ngCharles’ likeness from the archive sequences in 49 Up".
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Furneaux has also participated in one of the original television series in which a viewer was encouraged to voice their opinions regarding current television programmes, '']Right to Reply
''Right to Reply'' (sometimes called ''R2R'') is a British television series shown on Channel 4 from 1982 until 2001, which allowed viewers to voice their complaints or concerns about TV programmes. It featured reports, usually presented by a v ...
'', in 1998.
Filmography
Television
References
Further reading and viewing
Comprehensive list of all production credits for the title subject
from the BFI
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Living people
British television producers
1957 births
Alumni of University College, Durham
Equinox (TV series)