Michael Hayes
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 3, 1929
- Place of birth
- Barking, Essex, UK
- Died
- September 16, 2014
Biography
Michael Hayes (3 April 1929 – 16 September 2014) was a British television director and newsreader.
As a young man, Hayes was an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Later, he worked for the BBC in various roles, beginning as a studio manager for the World Service and working his way up to directing for television.
His most notable work was directing the hugely successful BBC drama adaptations of various Shakespeare plays, collectively entitled An Age of Kings, in 1960. Amongst Hayes's other credits, he directed three Doctor Who serials starring Tom Baker, including 1979's City of Death and also helmed the BBC's 1961 adaptation of A for Andromeda.
Movies with Michael Hayes
Movies directed by Michael Hayes
- Doctor Who: City of Death 1979 · ★ 9.0
- Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara 1978 · ★ 7.2
- A Flea in Her Ear 1968 · ★ 6.5
- Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor 1979 · ★ 5.5
- Nice 1984 · ★ 7.4
- The Wars of the Roses 1965 · ★ 8.7
- Mill Hill 1972 · ★ 4.0
- The Promise 1969 · ★ 9.0
- Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred 1970 · ★ 10.0
- The Mikado 1973 · ★ 9.0
- Merry Christmas Doctor Who 1978 · ★ 10.0
- A Christmas Carol 1980
- Tales from the Thousand and One Nights 1981
- Infidelity Took Place 1968
- Charlie 1968
- The Executioner 1966