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Stuart Urban (born 1958) is a British film and television director.

Early life and education

Urban was educated at

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,

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and

King's College School King's College School, also known as Wimbledon, KCS, King's and KCS Wimbledon, is a public school in Wimbledon, southwest London, England. The school was founded in 1829 by King George IV, as the junior department of King's College London an ...

, Wimbledon. At the age of 13, he became the youngest director to have a film shown at the

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with his short feature ''The Virus of War''. The 30-minute film was later shown on television in various countries. Urban later attended Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a first class degree in Modern History. His younger brother is the journalist

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.

Career

Urban began writing and directing full-time in the early 1980s, working on television drama series including '' Bergerac'' for the

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. In 1992, his one-off television film ''

An Ungentlemanly Act ''An Ungentlemanly Act'' is a 1992 BBC television film about the first days of the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982. Production The film was written and directed by Stuart Urban, and commissioned to mark the tenth anniversary of the ...

'', a dramatisation of the first 36 hours of the Falklands War featured

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. The production won the British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama in 1993. In 1993, Urban set up his own independent production company, Cyclops Vision, which has produced the majority of his work ever since. He was also one of the directors of the acclaimed and award-winning 1996 BBC drama serial ''

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'', although he left the production early after disagreements with writer

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, and one of his episodes was entirely re-shot by another director, though not before being entirely re-written by Peter Flannery – a fact generally withheld from public knowledge at the time. Urban went on to write, produce and direct the feature films '' Preaching to the Perverted'' (1997) and ''

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'' (2001), both produced by Cyclops Vision and released around the world. In 2015, it was listed by ''

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'' as one of the top 10 films about

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and fetish subject matter. His documentary film work includes the first polemical film against Western interventions, ''Against the War'' (BBC, Cyclops Vision; 1999) co-written with Harold Pinter, who also presented. In 2006, Urban completed ''

Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead ''Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead'' is a documentary film by Stuart Urban about his father Garri Urban (1916–2004), and also the title of an autobiographical book by Garri Urban describing his survival in, and escape from, Joseph Stalin's Soviet Uni ...

'', his full-length documentary film about his father Garri, a Jewish physician from Ukraine who escaped from both the

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and

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. It was released to UK cinemas in 2008, earning a number of nominations and awards, including a nomination at the British Independent Film Awards and Grierson Awards. In 2011 Urban wrote, produced and directed ''May I Kill U?'', a black comedy feature film starring

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,

Frances Barber Frances Barber (née Brookes, born 13 May 1958) is an English actress. She received Olivier Award nominations for her work in the plays '' Camille'' (1985), and ''Uncle Vanya'' (1997). Her film appearances include three collaborations with Gar ...

and

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. The plot follows a cycling vigilante who starts a lethal campaign in the London riots in 2011: "a psychopath on the cycle path". The film was released in 2013. In 2014, Urban optioned Deric Henderson's non-fiction book, ''

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'', which he adapted as screenwriter and executive produced for

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and ITV. A four-hour drama, starring

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as double murderer Colin Howell, it was filmed in Northern Ireland in late 2015 under the title '' The Secret'' and began transmission on 29 April 2016.. Urban was nominated for a BAFTA for ''The Secret'' in the category of Best Miniseries, for the Broadcast Awards (Best Drama); it also won the Royal Television Society Northern Ireland Awards as Best Drama.

Personal life

Urban and his wife Dana live in south-west London. They have two children.

References

Sources

''The Secret'' nominated at Broadcast Awards 2017''The Secret'' Wins Best Drama N Ireland, Royal Television Society Awards

External links

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Official siteOfficial site for ''Tovarisch I Am Not Dead''Official site for May I Kill U?
{{DEFAULTSORT:Urban, Stuart 1958 births Living people Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford British Reform Jews English film directors English male screenwriters English television directors People educated at King's College School, London People from Newport, Isle of Wight