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Jonathan Stedall
Jonathan Hugh Pemberton Stedall (20 January 1938 – 21 October 2022) was an English television producer and documentary filmmaker known for his collaborations with John Betjeman, Malcolm Muggeridge and Alan Bennett.
Stedall was born on 20 January 1938 in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire, to Peter Stedall, a director of his family's tool-manufacturing company in the City of London, and his wife Mollie. Stedall had a sister and a brother. His parents divorced when he was eight. He was educated at the independent Cothill House and Harrow School.
On leaving Harrow, Stedall briefly worked in the family business, before studying at the London School of Film Technique.
Stedall worked as an assistant stage manager, then as a stage manager, with the repertory company at the Grand Theatre in Croydon. He then became an assistant film editor at Pinewood Studios.
For two years Stedall was a floor manager at the Independent Television companies Television Wales and the West (TWW) and Associated Television (ATV).
On rejoining TWW, the franchise holder for Independent Television in South Wales and the West of England, Stedall directed factual programmes. He directed Betjeman's West Country films broadcast by TWW between 1962 and 1963. The films featured towns including Sidmouth, Bath, Weston-super-Mare and Devizes. Stedall would remain friends with Betjeman until the end of his life in 1984. Stedall also worked with the writer Gwyn Thomas on portraits of Rhondda, Neath and other South Wales areas from 1962 to 1963.
In 1963, Stedall moved to the BBC as a producer and director. He started with two months on the current affairs programme Tonight. From 1964 to 1966, he produced Footprints, a travel series telling historical stories, followed by three films for the 1966 The World of a Child series.
In 1968, Stedall produced In Need of Special Care, a two-part documentary series about the Camphill Movement's work helping people with learning disabilities, which won the 1969 Society of Film and Television Arts Robert Flaherty Award and was nominated for the Society's United Nations Award. He switched to films about historical figures for Gandhi's India (1969), The Story of Carl Gustav Jung (1971) and Tolstoy: From Riches to Rags (1972).
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Jonathan Stedall
Jonathan Hugh Pemberton Stedall (20 January 1938 – 21 October 2022) was an English television producer and documentary filmmaker known for his collaborations with John Betjeman, Malcolm Muggeridge and Alan Bennett.
Stedall was born on 20 January 1938 in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire, to Peter Stedall, a director of his family's tool-manufacturing company in the City of London, and his wife Mollie. Stedall had a sister and a brother. His parents divorced when he was eight. He was educated at the independent Cothill House and Harrow School.
On leaving Harrow, Stedall briefly worked in the family business, before studying at the London School of Film Technique.
Stedall worked as an assistant stage manager, then as a stage manager, with the repertory company at the Grand Theatre in Croydon. He then became an assistant film editor at Pinewood Studios.
For two years Stedall was a floor manager at the Independent Television companies Television Wales and the West (TWW) and Associated Television (ATV).
On rejoining TWW, the franchise holder for Independent Television in South Wales and the West of England, Stedall directed factual programmes. He directed Betjeman's West Country films broadcast by TWW between 1962 and 1963. The films featured towns including Sidmouth, Bath, Weston-super-Mare and Devizes. Stedall would remain friends with Betjeman until the end of his life in 1984. Stedall also worked with the writer Gwyn Thomas on portraits of Rhondda, Neath and other South Wales areas from 1962 to 1963.
In 1963, Stedall moved to the BBC as a producer and director. He started with two months on the current affairs programme Tonight. From 1964 to 1966, he produced Footprints, a travel series telling historical stories, followed by three films for the 1966 The World of a Child series.
In 1968, Stedall produced In Need of Special Care, a two-part documentary series about the Camphill Movement's work helping people with learning disabilities, which won the 1969 Society of Film and Television Arts Robert Flaherty Award and was nominated for the Society's United Nations Award. He switched to films about historical figures for Gandhi's India (1969), The Story of Carl Gustav Jung (1971) and Tolstoy: From Riches to Rags (1972).