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Dateline: 23rd November, 2007
Verity Lambert (1935 - 2007) Television producer Verity Lambert died yesterday, just five days short of her 72nd birthday and a few days after it was announced that she was to receive the Working Title Films lifetime achievement award at the 2007 Women in Film and Television Awards next month. Educated at Roedean, she began her television career as a secretary in the press office at Granada. Sacked from that job, she went to ABC Television where she became a shorthand typist and then secretary to the Head of Drama. From that she moved to being a production assistant on Armchair Theatre. Eventually, in 1963, she was recruited by Sydney Newman, her former boss at ABC who had moved to the BBC, to produce Docture Eho, thus becoming not only the youngest producer at the coropration, but also the only woman. After two series of the show, she moved on, producing shows as varied as the soap The Newcomers to a twenty-six-part series of adaptations of the stories of William Somerset Maugham. She left the BBC in 1969 to work for London Weekend Television and then, in 1974, became Head of Drama at Thames Television. In 1976 she became responsible for Euston Films and in 1979 became its Chief Executive. In 1985 she set up her own production company Cinema Verity. Among the many series for which she was responsible over her career are Minder, Quatermass, Jonathan Creek, G.B.H and, mopst recently, Love Soup. Her non-series productions include The Naked Civil Servant and feature film A Cry in the Dark (1988), starring Sam Neill and Meryl Streep. In 2002 she was awarded the OBE and received BAFTA's Alan Clarke Award for Outstanding Contribution to Television.
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