Jeremy Summers

Jeremy Summers (born 1931 in St Albans) is a retired British television director and film director, best known for his directorship of ITC productions in the 1960s and 1970s, most notably The Saint.

Background

Born in St Albans in 1931, Summers was born into a family of theatrical tradition and his father Walter Summers (1896-1973) was a film director and screenwriter.

He directed nearly 50 different TV programmes between 1960 and 1999, including The Saint and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).

Career

Summers began directing in 1960 with a film Depth Charge, the screenplay of which he also wrote, but he immediately turned his attention to television and directed episodes of Desert Hi-Jack, Interpol Calling and four episodes of International Detective between 1960 and 1961.

A sequence of feature films followed, the Tony Hancock feature film vehicle The Punch and Judy Man, Crooks in Cloisters (1964) with Barbara Windsor, Dateline Diamonds (1965) starring William Lucas and Kenneth Cope as well as Gerry and the Pacemakers feature film Ferry Cross the Mersey (1965). Meanwhile, he continued in television with Man of the World and, in 1965, episodes of Court Martial, Gideon's Way and two more films Ferry Cross the Mersey and San Ferry Ann.