Paul Seed

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Paul Seed born 18 September 1947 is a British television director and former actor Born in Bideford in Devon he began his career as an actor appearing in numerous television series including Z Cars Softly Softly Task Force Survivors Doctor Who Secret Army Coronation Street Crown Court and Tales of the Unexpected In the late 1970s Seed chose to pursue a career in TV drama directing and completed the BBC Directors course following which he directed numerous TV plays series and serials during the 1980s He is perhaps best known for directing the BBCs smashhit 1990 miniseries House of Cards and its sequel To Play the King adapted by Andrew Davies from Michael Dobbs novels and famously starring Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart He continued to direct for television drama series throughout the 1990s including A Touch of Frost and Playing the Field and in 2002 directed all six episodes of the revival of Auf Wiedersehen Pet In recent years he has directed episodes of New Tricks Northern Lights and Lark Rise to Candleford and in 2010 directed the BBC adaptation of Just William Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Seed licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia