MARQUAND Richard

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MARQUAND
Richard

Welsh film and television director

Date of Birth: 22 September 1937
Age at the time of death: 49 years old
Date death 4 September 1987
In the rating: #5 Film director

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Richard Alfred Marquand was a Welsh film and television director active in both American and British film productions, best known for directing the 1983 space opera Return of the Jedi, the final film in the original Star Wars trilogy. He also directed the 1981 drama film Eye of the Needle, the critically panned romance film Until September, and the 1985 thriller Jagged Edge.

Career

By late 1966, Marquand had begun a career directing television documentaries for the BBC, where he worked on projects such as the 1972 series Search for the Nile and an edition of One Pair of Eyes (1968), about the novelist Margaret Drabble who had been a friend of his at Cambridge. He collaborated with the celebrated foreign correspondent James Cameron on a long-running series called Cameron Country for BBC television and also with John Pilger on a series of films for ITV. In 1979, Marquand incorporated many of his documentary techniques in his biographical television movie Birth of the Beatles. He directed several films specifically for children including the 1977 Emmy winning Big Henry and the Polka Dot Kid.

On the strength of his direction of the 1981 feature, Eye of the Needle, Marquand was hired by writer-producer George Lucas to direct Return of the Jedi. In his commentary track on the DVD, Lucas explains that Marquand "had done some great suspense films and was really good with actors. Eye of the Needle was the film I'd seen that he had done that impressed me the most, it was really nicely done and had a lot of energy and suspense." For his work on the film, Marquand won a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1984.

Marquand subsequently directed the 1985 courtroom thriller Jagged Edge, starring Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close.

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Date of Birth 22 September 1937

Age at the time of death 49 years old

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British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 18 Persons

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Labour Party 14 Persons

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Her Majesty's Treasury (HM Treasury) 7 Persons

International Airlines Group (IAG) 6 Persons

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ITV 6 Persons

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In my first year on the job I sold absolutely nothing at all

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MCCALL Davina

These are just mental. But these are all real, and these are very disconcerting to me, to the point where I thought, ‘I’m not sure I can present television any more’.