Paul Marcus

British television director and producer

Paul Marcus
Born	Paul Coryn Valentine Marcus (1954-05-30)30 May 1954 London, England
Died	13 February 2011(2011-02-13) (aged 56) London, England
Occupation	television director
Spouse	Viviana Maranzano (1987–2011)

Paul Coryn Valentine Marcus (30 May 1954 – 13 February 2011) was a BAFTA winning British television director and producer.^[1]^[2] His most notable success was as producer of the television series Prime Suspect, but he also worked in cinema, theatre and many other TV series.^[3]

Early life

Marcus was born in London in 1954, the son of playwright Frank Marcus, a German-born Jew who fled to Britain in 1939 and the actress Jacqueline Sylvester. He was educated at Latymer Upper School and Lincoln College, Oxford.^[4]

Credits

His credits include the following:

New Voices (1994, TV series)
Prime Suspect: The Scent of Darkness (1995, TV movie)
Break Up (1998)
After Alice (2000)
Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (2001, TV series)
The Bill (2002, TV series)
In Deep (2001 –2003, TV series)
Imperium: Nerone (2004, TV movie)
Heidi (2005)
Dalziel and Pascoe (2000–2006, TV series)
Roman Mysteries (2007, TV series)
Lark Rise To Candleford (2009, TV series)

Notes

^ Obituary London Guardian, 4 March 2011.
^ "BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org.
^ "Paul Marcus". BFI. Archived from the original on November 30, 2018.
^ "Paul Marcus: TV producer and director who was a driving force behind". The Independent. October 23, 2011. Archived from the original on 2022-05-25.