Nigel Randell Evans (often credited simply as Nigel Evans) (1943–2014) was a British author, campaigner for people with disabilities and film maker, with over forty social documentaries to his credit, including Walter, the feature film screened on the inaugural night of the United Kingdom’s Channel 4.

He subsequently made over forty social documentaries, including Silent Minority (1981), which received national attention in the United Kingdom with its exposure of the neglect and abuse of patients in British mental hospitals.

[3] When Channel 4 was launched in 1982, as the fourth national television service in the United Kingdom, 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.

[8][9] He marked his retirement from television in 1996 with a celebration of life for the over sixties, Grey Sex [10] After two decades of film making, he then qualified as a psycho-geriatric social worker in the mid 1990s, and practised in West London.

[1] His first book, The White Headhunter, an historical study of castaway John (Jack) Renton in the Pacific's Solomon Islands, was published in 2003, under the name Nigel Randell.