Rodney Bennett

Rodney Bennett (24 March 1935 – 3 January 2017) was a British television director.

[1] He began working for the BBC in radio and moved into television with the launch of BBC2.

His subsequent work included directing episodes of Z-Cars[1] and three Doctor Who stories, The Ark in Space,[2][3] The Sontaran Experiment,[2][4] (both 1975) and The Masque of Mandragora (1976).

[2][5] He also directed Derek Jacobi and Patrick Stewart in the BBC Shakespeare production of Hamlet in 1980.

For ITV he directed the comedy-drama series Anything More Would Be Greedy in 1989 and episodes of The Darling Buds of May.