Director
Humphrey Burton
Born 1931 · Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, UK
Author, broadcaster, director and producer. First Head of Music and Arts for BBC Television 1965-1967. Resumed the position again from 1975-1981 after an eight year absence in commercial television as a founder-member of London Weekend Television. For his work as a director, he has won four Emmy Awards, two British Academy Awards and as a presenter received the Royal Television Society Silver medal and Sony Gold Award.
Directed
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2
Director · 1977
Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony
Director · 1970
War and Peace
Director · 1991
Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3
Director · 1973
Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 / Das Lied von der Erde
Director · 2005
Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6
Director · 1976
The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology
Director · 1976
Die Fledermaus
Director · 1984
The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics
Director · 1976
Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein
Director · 1970
Eugene Onegin
Director · 1994
The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
Director · 1976
The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth
Director · 1976
The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax
Director · 1976
Candide
Director · 1988
Manon Lescaut
Director · 1997
Lulu
Director · 1996
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Director · 1977
Acting
BBC Young Musician
Self - Host · 1978
Elton John: Mr. Superfunk
Self · 1971
The Opera House
Self - BBC Arts Reporter · 2017
Omnibus
Self - Presenter · 1967
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
Self (archival footage) · 2009
Glenn Gould: Hereafter
Self · 2006
Marevna and Marika
Himself · 1978
The Golden Ring
Himself - Narrator · 1965
How the BBC Began
Self · 2022
Conversations with Glenn Gould
Interviewer · 1966
Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen
Self · 2008
Karajan's Magic and Myth
Self · 2014
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self - Host · 1976
The Story of Pantomime
Self · 1976
New York, New York - Saturday in SoHo/Watching My Name Go By
Presenter · 1976
La Stupenda
Self · 1991
Gordon Jacob
Commentator · 1959