Roger Tucker director & writer Waiting for Dublin won the Best Feature and Audience Awards at Moondance Film Festival (L.A.) 2007. Films directed by Roger Tucker have also been screened at fesivals in Shanghai, San Francisco, Montreal, Aukland, London, and at the Bamff Televison Festival. Extensive experience as a director in TV, both in the UK and Europe, includes over thirty series as well as single films, documentaries and arts programs. He also has screen credits as writer and producer. He has shot commercials and longer promotions for many international brands; work has been screened at the IVCA Awards, and he is a winner of the Advertising Creative Circle Prize. Tucker made his first film while still at school. It won a Young Film- makers’ Award and a grant from the BFI. After a degree in pyschology at Sussex University, he joined Granada as a production trainee, and worked in current affairs, arts features, and drama, before leaving to become a freelance director. Work on many of the classic action series followed, including Gangsters, Shoestring, The Professionals, Dempsey & Makepeace, and Bergerac. He also directed the TV spy movie, Deadly Recruits with Terence Stamp, and two mini-series in Scotland, Bookie, and Winners & Losers, for which he also wrote the scenario. He has since had wide international experience, with series in German (Die Wache), and Dutch (Villa Borhese); a Bollywood co- production (Bomay Blue): and location work in Lithuania and Zimbabwe. Roger Tucker / credits listing 2 c r e d i t s as director features & single dramas Waiting for Dublin In the last days of WWII a US pilot is Producer Corsan/ forced to ditch his fighter in neutral Ireland. Paul Breuls Merlin/ There he meets a German pilot who has Scion deserted from the Nazi Luftwaffe; with Andrew Keagan, Jade Yourell, Pat Laferty, Frank Kelly Deadly Recruits Starring: Terence Stamp, Carmen Du Producer Richard Western- Sautoy, Michael Culver, Robin Sachs Two Everitt world Oxford students have died and the mystery involves an international network of intrigue. Rules of Justice drama documentary on the Confait Case; producer BBC a retarded boy is wrongly accused of Ruth Caleb murder; by William Humble; with Tony London, June Brown, Polly Perkins The Personal Touch two divorcees meet through the personal producer STV column of a newspaper; by Hector Robert Love Macmillan; with Morag Hood You’re a Good Boy, a journalist at the end of his tether returns producer STV Son to his roots; by C. P. Taylor; with Alex Robert Love Heggie, Andrew Crawford Released a rising soccer star is sacked for lack of producer BBC discipline; by Stephen Wakelam; with Tara Prem Christopher Blake, Sheila Felvin The Ghost of Adelphi George Bernard Shaw drags J. M. Barrie producer BBC Terrace out for a night on the town; by Gwyn Frank Hatherley Thomas; with Joseph O’Connor, John Barrard A Private Matter the family secret of a general who Producer Granada appeared stark naked on parade; with Ian Peter Eckersley Charleson, Rachel Kempson. Nineteen Thirty-nine a student’s psycho-analysis is interrupted producer Granada by the out-break of war; by John Grillo; Jonathan Powell with Harold Goldblatt as Freud Roger Tucker / credits listing 3 Little Fears fear of the outside world is passed from producer Granada mother to son; by Emanuel Peluso; with Peter Eckersley Tom Bell, Ursula Howells Life and Soul a foreign correspondent is reconciled with producer Granada his dying father; by William Oaks; with Michael Dunlop Peter McEnery, Patrick Allen Roger Tucker / credits listing 4 series / serials The Bill Bad for Your Health — 2 hour story with producer Thames the police caught in the middle of the war Tom Cotter between two gangs involved in tobacco smuggling Soldier, Soldier the squad join a UN peace-keeping producer Carlton mission in a state torn by civil war; shot on Annie location in Zimbabwe Tricklebank Bombay Blue an Asian cop in the Glasgow force is taken producer Fabulous back to his roots by a Super hell-bent on Trevor Davies Fruits / C4 getting to the source of a drug run; shot on location in Bombay; with Shan Kahn, Donald Sumpter The New Adventures the redoubtable hero and his merry men in producers Warner of Robin Hood a world of pagan magic; with Mathew Fred Weintraub, Bros. Porretta, Anna Galvin Tom Kuhn Die Wache 4 x I hour German police series shot in producer JE / RTL Cologne and the Rhineland in German Rob Herzet Villa Borghese life and death on a health & beauty farm; producer Stokvis / 12 part series in Dutch (complete ) René Stokvis AVRO Moon & Son a clairvoyant travelling the markets of producer BBC Normandy: with Millicent Martin Robert Banks Stewart Winners & Losers a young boxer tries to make it to the big producer STV time; with Leslie Grantham, Jimmy Logan Robert Love Bookie old time bookie is tempted by easy money: producer STV with Maurice Roëves, John Hannah Robert Love Saracen dangerous work of a security firm: with producer Central Christian Burgess, Michael Byrne Deirdre Keir Dempsey & American cop / Home Counties side-kick: producer LWT Makepeace series shown in USA, with Michael Ranald Graham Brandon, Glynis Barber Call Me Mister Australian exile returns to claim his producer BBC / inheritance; with Steve Bisley Robert Banks Channel 7 Stewart Lovejoy first series of the rogue antique dealer; producer BBC including episode shown at Banff TV Robert Banks Festival Stewart Bergerac series one of the long-running Jersey cop: producer BBC with John Nettles, Cecile Paoli, Greta Robert Banks Scacchi Stewart Friends Till the End a woman with everything is consumed by producer BBC guilt; a narrated story in five 5min. Brian Morgan Roger Tucker / credits listing 5 episodes Bulman retired cop becomes watch repair man: producer Granada with Don Henderson, Siobhan Redman Steve Hawes Chessgame Terence Stamp’s only TV series — spy producer Granada story in three parts: with Carmen du Richard Everitt Sautoy Strangers undercover police detective series: with producer Granada Don Henderson, Mark McManus Richard Everitt Boy Who Won the comic fantasy about a boy who buys a producer TVS Pools mansion, a tiger, and a reggae band; score Brenda Ennis by Dennis Bovell The Professionals first British film series to be shown in USA producer LWT and released on VHS & DVD: with Martin Ray Menmuir Shaw, Lewis Collins Shoestring series one of the cult classic on which producer BBC “Midnight Caller” was based, with Trevor Robert Banks Eve as the “private ear” Stewart Sexton Blake tongue-in-cheek Arabian adventure, set in producer BBC the 20’s; written by Simon Raven, with Barry Letts Jeremy Clyde, Natasha Parry; ( six episodes – complete ) Fallen Hero fall of a rugby league star; with Del producer Granada Henney, Wanda Ventham; written by Brian June Howson Finch Moody & Pegg comedy drama of reluctant flat-mates in producer Thames middle- age; with Judy Cornwell, Derek Robert Love Waring Gangsters cult fantasy thriller of inter-racial gangster producer BBC conflicts; with Maurice Colbourne, Saeed David Rose Jaffrey, Chai Lee Trinity Tales stories as told by Rugby League fans on producer BBC their way to Wembley in a mini- bus; by David Rose Alan Plater, with Francis Matthews, Bill Maynard, Gaye Brown The Enigma Files the department of unsolved cases; with producer BBC Tom Adams, June Bolton Joe Waters Nineteen Ninety political thriller starring Edward Woodward producer BBC with Lisa Harrow, Robert Lang Pru Fitzgerald The Bill four short stories from a south London producer Thames (half-hour stories} police station Peter Wolfes Sutherland’s Law life and work of a Scottish Procurate producer BBC Fiscal; with Ian Cuthbertson, Patrick Frank Cox Malahide Nightingale’s Boys reunion of a schoolmaster’s most producer Granada promising class, with Derek Farr, Pauline Brian Armstrong Yates, John Carson Crown Court courtroom drama series – later used to producers Granada train real life barristers Michael Dunlop, Roger Tucker / credits listing 6 Jonathan Powell Adam Smith life of a Church of Scotland minister; with producer Granada Andrew Keir, Tom Conti; scripts by Trevor June Howson Griffiths, Peter McDougal Roger Tucker / credits listing 7 soaps Hollyoaks on-going drama set in Chester, centring Producer Mersey TV around young people in their Teens and Jo Hallows Twenties. Also directed several specials. Brookside life in a Liverpool suburb; including producers Mersey TV episodes setting a record for the highest Mal Young, weekly ratings Sue Sutton Mayo Angels life among junior nurses in a training producer BBC hospital; script by Peter Ransley Julia Smith Rooms life in a London rooming house; with Jill producer Thames Gascoine, Dennis Lill Jacqueline Davis Coronation Street nine months turn-around on the world’s producers Granada longest running soap opera Harry Kershaw, Eric Prytherch, Brian Armstrong Roger Tucker / credits listing 8 documentaries / current affairs And On The Eighth an ex-ballet dancer fights a running battle producer Granada Day with tough kids of Liverpool 8 to set up an Mike Scott arts centre – shown at the San Francisco Film Festival When Britain Stopped industry at a standstill; shown as part of producer Richard Granada Growing the World In Action series Thomas A Clown Out of the last of a long line of circus clowns producer Granada Season retires to a terraced house in Bolton Dennis Mitchell Home from the Sea an old sailors’ home, amidst derelict producer Granada dockland, finally closes down Brian Truman This is Your Right community and consumer service producer Granada programmes, linked by Michael Winstanley Brian Winston Scene Granada’s nightly local magazine producers Granada programme, with music, interviews, and Mike Scott, news Barry Cockcroft, Brian Moser, Nick Elliott Roger Tucker / credits listing 9 music / arts / education Access All Areas behind the scenes investigation into love exec.