Damon Thomas
Director for television
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Theatre, Film and TV Amanda Davis
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Biography
Damon came from a background in documentaries, going on to direct high profile dramas including two series of Sky Atlantic and Showtime's Penny Dreadful, and new drama Riviera for Sky Atlantic.
Damon directed two brilliant low budget dramas for BBC 4, both in partnership with Mark Gatiss: Crooked House with Tiger Aspect Productions and The First Men In The Moon - which he also produced through his own partnership company with Mark Gatiss; Can Do Productions.
Damon also directed Dirk Gently for ITV Productions /Welded Tandem and BBC 4; a pilot based on the Douglas Adams book, adapted by Howard Overman and starring Stephen Mangan. His other drama credits include Prisoners Wives - an original for Tiger Aspect/BBC 1 - and Monroe, starring James Nesbitt, for Mammoth/ITV 1, Lightfields for ITV1, and the second series of In the Flesh for the BBC.
CV
TV
Director
Creator
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Producer
Sally Woodward-Gentle
A security operative hunts for an assassin. Based on the Villanelle novellas by Luke Jennings.
Sid Gentle for BBC America
Riviera
2 x 60'
Producer
Foz Allan
Writer
Neil Jordan and John Banville
Starring
Drama series
Archery Pictures for Sky Atlantic
Penny Dreadful Series 3
4 x 60'
Creator
John Logan
Producer
Chris King
Third series of the popular drama
Neal Street Productions / Desert Wolf Productions for Showtime/Sky Atlantic
Penny Dreadful Series 2
2 x 60'
Creator
John Logan
Producer
Chris King
Starring
Horror series
Neal Street Productions / Desert Wolf Productions for Showtime / Sky Atlantic
In the Flesh, series 2
2 x 60'
Creator
Dominic Mitchell
Producer
John Rushton
Writer
Dominic Mitchell
Supernatural drama
BBC for BBC3
Lightfields
5 x 60'
Producer
Cherry Gould
Starring
Five-part supernatural drama
ITV Studios for ITV1
Monroe: Series 2
6 x 60'
Creator
Peter Bowker
Producer
David Moore
Starring
Drama
Mammoth Screen for ITV1
Prisoners' Wives
6 x 60'
Producer
Anna Ferguson
Writer
Julie Geary
Series about a group of women who have lost the men in their lives to
Her Majesty's Pleasure.
Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC1
Sirens
6 x 60'
Creator
Brian Fillis
Producer
Chris Clough
Starring
Drama series which follows a team of world-weary paramedics on the streets of Leeds.
Daybreak Pictures for Channel 4
In Production
Dirk Gently
1 x 60' pilot
Producer
Chris Carey
Writer
Howard Overman
Starring
Drama starring Stephen Mangan based on the Douglas Adams' cult novel, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
ITV Productions/Welded Tandem for BBC4
Horizon: Why do we talk
1 x 60'
Producer
Penny Palmer
Horizon meets the scientists beginning to unlock the secrets of speech - including a father who is filming every second of his son's first three years in order to discover how we learn to talk, the autistic savant who can speak more than 20 languages, and the first scientist to identify a gene that makes speech possible.
BBC for BBC1
Producer
Suzanne Lavery
Starring
Drama tells the little known story of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's epic hunt for penguin eggs during Captain Scott's polar expedition of 1910–1913.
Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC 4
Crooked House
1 x 90'
Three-part supernatural drama mini-series based around the goings-on in a haunted manor house.
Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC4
The First Men In The Moon
1 x 90'
Producer
Julie Clark
Starring
Adaptation of HG Wells' scientific fiction classic
Can Do Productions for BBC4
Writer & Director
Starring
Paul Rhys David Bamber David Calder
A dramatised documentary on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven.
BBC 2
Director & Producer
50 minute documentary which showed Jonathan Miller retracing the steps of the first anthropological field trip to the Torres Straight Islands - which gave birth to British anthropology.
Uden Associates for BBC 2
Two half-hour documentaries on the subject of modern day morality with Angus Deayton.
Talkback Productions for BBC 1
Desperately Seeking Stardom
8 x 30'
Eight half-hour fly-on-the-wall documentaries following the highs and lows of six aspiring actors in Hollywood.
September Films for ITV
Royal Wedding Bells
1 x 50'
50 minute documentary on the memories of people who either went to, participated in, or were guests at past Royal Weddings.
RDF Media for BBC 1
Close Up: Tim Roth
1 x 50'
50 minute documentary on the life and work of Tim Roth.
RDF Media for BBC 1
Together again
3 x 60'
Three of six documentaries about divorced couples who have volunteered to spend more time together again.
RDF Media for Channel 4
Destination Mars
3 x 60'
Three hour-long documentaries on humankind's fascination with and plans to go to Mars.
RDF Media for Channel 4
Paul Dreams of Betty
1 x 30'
Half hour programme which uses the latest in visual compositing techniques to allow Paul O'Grady (a.k.a. Lily Savage) to meet his hero Bette Davis.
RDF Media for ITV 1
The Man who saved children
1 x 60'
Started Channel 4's Georgian Underworld season. Hour long docu-drama starring Bernard Gallagher which tells the story of Thomas Coram and the reason he set up a hospital for abandoned babies in London in the 1740s.
RDF Media for Channel 4
Living with the dead
1 x 60'
One-hour documentary looking at the rise in interest in psychic phenomena and featuring the story of Justine Picardie, the author who wrote a book about her search for someone who could contact her sister who died of breast cancer.
Juniper Communications for Channel 4
Mutants: The meaning of beauty
1 x 60'
Final programme of three films based on the Award winning book Mutants by Armand Marie Leroi. Presented by Dr. Leroi the programmes look at how genetic mutation tells us something about normal human diversity. This film looks at the meaning of beauty.
Tiger Aspect Productions for Channel 4
The Spy who conned me
1 x 60'
Starring
Robert Hendy-Freegard
Hour-long film about Robert Hendy-Freegard, the man who pretended to be an MI5 spy and conned friends, family and lovers for money and pleasure over a 10 year period. He was convicted of 19 counts including for the first time in legal history kidnapping by deception.
Century Films for Channel 4
An insight into the life and times of David Beckham, one of the most famous men on the planet, filmed with his full co-operation in the weeks leading up to the World Cup in 2006.
19 Television/Century Films for ITV 1
Documentary looking at the rise in use of self-storage in modern living.
BBC Documentaries for BBC1
