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Nigel Randell Evans (often credited simply as Nigel Evans) (born 1943-2014) was a British author, campaigner for people with disabilities and film maker, with over 40 social documentaries to his credit, including ''Walter'' the feature film screened on the inaugural night of the UK’s Channel 4. ==Biography== Nigel Randell Evans was the eldest son of Air Chief Marshal Sir Donald Randell Evans (1912-1975) and Pauline Evans.〔 In 1973 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to explore new approaches to raising public awareness to the plight of marginalised people.〔 As a result he founded a charity One-to-One that aspired to break the marginalisation of people in mental hospitals.〔"Growing Success of One-to-One". New Society. 11 August 1975〕 His campaigning work with people with disabilities has been a regular theme in his film making since the start of his career at the beginning of the 1970s. He has subsequently made over 40 social documentaries including ''Silent Minority'' (1981) which received national attention in the UK with its exposure of the neglect and abuse of patients in British mental hospitals.〔"But look at the ratings". Daily Telegraph. 11 June 1981〕 When Channel 4 was launched in 1982, as the fourth national TV service in the UK, joining the two public BBC channels and commercial network ITV, his film ‘Walter’, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Ian McKellen, was the feature film on its inaugural night.〔Barnes, Julian, 2 January 1982, "First Thoughts on Four". The Observer〕 His 1983 film, ''The Skin Horse'', a film essay exploring the sexual and emotional needs of people with a disability, won Channel 4 its first Royal Television Society Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RTS NATIONAL AWARDS )〕 The film's other awards include the George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award from the University of Georgia.〔"A Shattering look at how we de-sexed the Handicapped". Chicago Sun-Times. 3 November 1984〕 He was commissioned by Channel Four to make its first documentary drama in sign language, Pictures in the Mind, in 1987,.〔"Now Listen Here" Today, 7 April 1987〕〔"Removing the Sound Barrier" Daily Mail, 7 April 1987〕 In 1995 Evans was asked to make the BBC's contribution to World Aids Day. The resulting film, "The Age of Innocence", was reviewed in the Times as "the best programme yet made about Aids in this country".〔Truss, Lynne, 6 December 1995,"At Last Some Straight Talk About AIDS". The Times〕〔Massingberd, Hugh, 6 December 1995, "Tackling the Mythology of AIDS". The Daily Telegraph〕 He marked his retirement from television in 1996 with a celebration of life for the over sixties, Grey Sex 〔Odone, Cristina, 8 May 1996,. "It's Not All Bad News for Grown Ups". The Daily Telegraph〕 After two decades of film making, he then qualified as a psycho-geriatric social worker in the mid 1990s and practiced in West London.〔 His first book, ''The White Headhunter'', an historical study of castaway James Renton in the Pacific's Solomon Islands, was published in 2003 under the name Nigel Randell. He published his second Pacific book, ''Boys from the Sky – the curious genesis of the world’s first ethnography'', also as Nigel Randell, in 2013. Evans retired to the Pacific island of Tonga.〔 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「Nigel Randell Evans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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