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Donald Victor Taylor (30 June 1936 – 11 November 2003; usually credited as Don Taylor) was an English writer, director and producer, active across theatre, radio and television for over forty years. He is most noted for his television work, particularly his early 1960s collaborations with the playwright David Mercer, much of whose early work Taylor directed for the BBC. ==The BBC== Born in Marylebone in London, Taylor attended Chiswick Grammar School and subsequently studied English Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford. While at university he became actively involved in student theatre, particularly with the Experimental Theatre Club. It was for the club that Taylor directed, in 1957, the world premiere of ''Epitaph for George Dillon'' by the acclaimed playwright John Osborne. After graduating, he joined the BBC as a general trainee in 1960, quickly becoming a television director in the drama department. His first directing work was an episode of the crime series ''Scotland Yard'', but he rapidly became more associated with directing single plays. His association with David Mercer began in 1961 with ''Where the Difference Begins'', the first instalment in what became the "Generations" trilogy, the subsequent instalments of which – ''A Climate of Fear'' (1962) and ''Birth of a Private Man'' (1963) – were also directed by Taylor. He also directed Mercer's ''Sunday Night Play'' episode ''A Suitable Case for Treatment'' (1962), which explored the writer's experiences of his own nervous breakdown. Taylor was greatly displeased by the arrival in December 1962 of the Canadian producer Sydney Newman as the new Head of Drama at the BBC. He regarded Newman as an uncultured populist with no theatrical knowledge or background; Taylor himself felt that the BBC should be the "National Theatre of the Air". He also disliked Newman's restructuring of the drama department, one of the features of which was the abolition of the BBC's traditional single producer/director role and the division of responsibilities of producing and directing to separate posts. Newman attempted to work with Taylor and offered him the producer's role on a series the Canadian himself had initiated – an educational science-fiction serial for children entitled ''Doctor Who''. Taylor had no interest in the series. Taylor remained with the BBC for a time, but eventually in 1963 his unhappiness with the department under Newman drove him to resign from the corporation. Although he did return as a freelancer to direct two episodes of ''The Wednesday Play'' in 1965 – including a further Mercer play, ''And Did Those Feet?'' – he later claimed to have been "blacklisted" from working in the BBC's drama department for the remainder of the decade, and there is a deal of evidence to show that this was the case. Taylor himself quoted Lionel Harris as confirming this to Ellen Dryden in his memoir ''Days of Vision''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Don Taylor (English director and playwright)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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