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Sydney Cecil Newman, OC (April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. After his return to Canada in 1970, Newman was appointed Acting Director of the Broadcast Programs Branch for the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) and then head of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He also occupied senior positions at the Canadian Film Development Corporation and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and acted as an advisor to the Secretary of State.
During his time in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, he worked first with the Associated British Corporation (ABC, now Thames Television), before moving across to the BBC in 1962, holding the role of Head of Drama with both organisations. During this phase of his career, he was responsible for initiating two hugely popular television programmes, the spy-fi series The Avengers and the science-fiction series Doctor Who, as well as overseeing the production of groundbreaking social realist drama series such as Armchair Theatre and The Wednesday Play.
The Museum of Broadcast Communications describes Newman as "the most significant agent in the development of British television drama." His obituary in The Guardian declared that "For ten brief but glorious years, Sydney Newman ... was the most important impresario in Britain ... His death marks not just the end of an era but the laying to rest of a whole philosophy of popular art."
In Quebec, as commissioner of the NFB, he attracted controversy for his decision to suppress distribution of several politically sensitive films by French Canadian directors.
Most Popular Sydney Newman Trailers
Total trailers found: 65
08 July 1962
Tough merchant seaman Pat Greevey returns to his family in Liverpool to find the key to a recent death.
13 September 1959
Aboard a BOAC plane departing an unnamed Iron Curtain country, a stowaway has convinced a flight attendant to conceal him so he can defect on arrival in London.
01 January 1948
The Leslie Bell Singers work during the day and rehearse at night for the joy they find in singing. Here they present widely differing numbers: Echo Song from 16th-century Italy is followed by the Québec folk song Quand j'étais chez mon père; the black spiritual I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray contrasts with I'se the Boy That Builds the Boat, from the fishing hamlets of Newfoundland; and finally a special arrangement of Schubert's Ave Maria.
24 April 1960
Against the wishes of his domineering mother, Albert Stokes attends a work party. But the evening is not the escape he was hoping for.
01 January 1948
A short film by Roger Blais.
29 January 1961
Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents.
03 April 1960
Play about two brothers who both want their Welsh grandfather to live with them.
13 August 1998
British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the world with his weather control machine.
30 October 1960
Ambition takes hold of fashion-house salesman Ronnie Page as he forgets those closest to him in his desire for a successful career.
18 August 1948
The personal and social tragedy of drug addiction with its evil accompaniment, drug traffic. Over the side of the silent liner in the darkness slips the package of smuggled narcotics, introducing us to the complex problem which involves all races and classes of man.
25 December 2015
It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers.
25 December 2011
It's Christmas Eve, 1938, when Madge Arwell comes to the aid of an injured Spaceman Angel as she cycles home.
23 November 2023
The very first crew of the TARDIS land in a petrified forest on an alien planet. Determined to explore, the Doctor leads his companions into the metal city, where they discover danger at every corner and what will become his deadliest enemy.
05 November 1966
Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth colony on the planet Vulcan in the far future.
30 September 1962
An agent invites his young starlet to a party, to meet all the right people. A chance to move on from the commercials she has been doing, to bigger roles and maybe stardom.
22 August 1947
At the Canadian National Exhibition, a young boy gets separated from his parents and meets some celebrities.
08 October 1961
A young woman befriends a lonely millionaire with a disfigured face whose ruthless business practices are threatening to ruin her father.
23 August 1965
Scientist Doctor Who accidentally activates his new invention, the Tardis, a time machine disguised as a police telephone box.
01 January 1947
This short film showcases the city of Montreal on a summer's night. What was once a small Indian village is presented as a pot-pourri of contrasting sights and sounds.
14 March 1944
This short film depicts the strength and resources of the Royal Canadian Air Force, with its 32 overseas squadrons.
31 January 2006
The cast and crew's memories of the creation of the Daleks and the making of The Daleks.
13 March 1944
First half of film portrays life in port, including rum issue, distribution of letters, and taking on ammunition, the remainder tells the story of an action against German S-boats, in a stock-shot compilation including some captured film.
13 July 1947
Documentary short from the NFB Canada Carries On series on dancing from the different cultures in Canada.
10 January 1951
It's a talent showcase for a singer.
18 August 1949
A child spends two weeks in a summer camp at Muskoka, Ontario. This short film presents a delightful portrait of a young boy's sojourn at summer camp.
01 February 1959
Jacko, a respected union man, is fighting for the promotion of a Jamaican colleague to chargehand, but when his daughter brings home her black boyfriend, he realises that racial prejudice is rife within his own home.
15 June 1983
One of Bob Hunt's neighbours' electricity is cut off because she cannot pay the bill. She is assisted by contributions, and the bill is paid entirely in pennies, though the clerk is belatedly told that payment is not accepted in such a large quantity of coins.
23 October 1960
A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decays around them.
01 January 1949
With simple ceremony on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Newfoundlanders are welcomed as fellow-Canadians. Prime Minister St.
03 April 1956
When the pilot and co-pilot of a commercial flight become ill from food poisoning, a passenger who once flew in WW2 must take the controls and try to safely land the aircraft.
11 October 1959
Geoffrey Hansbury's clothing empire is on the verge of collapse. His health his deteriorating and relies on his secretary Jane Harrison, who is also his mistress.
19 August 1962
Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he tells her stories of his father's travels but discovers a picture of him taken in Skegness and knows he's living a lie.
01 January 1951
Canada's progress in jet aviation is seen in relation to that of other countries.
14 March 1944
This short documentary from the Canada Carries On series celebrates the contribution of Canada’s railroads to the war effort.
17 August 1944
Documentary films about air mail. Dramatizes the near-collision of a Trans-Canada Air Lines Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra airliner with an Avro Anson training aircraft.
08 July 1943
A look at Britain's and Canada's defensive preparations against an air attack.
01 January 1949
This short documentary features a portrait of Ottawa in the mid-20th century, as the nascent Canadian capital grew with force but without direction.
03 December 1945
This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series. At the end of World War II there were sixty million sick and starving children in Europe.
01 January 1943
During World War II Norwegian patriots struck at Germany from the rear, linking Canada, the United States and Britain with Soviet Russia.
01 January 1989
Features clips from 21 documentary and animation film classics, interviews with NFB filmmakers past and present, and incisive commentary from film critics and historians on the role and influence of the NFB during its first half century of existence.
05 April 2008
A tribute to Verity Lambert, the BBC's first female producer and one of the country's most influential pioneers of television drama.
13 September 1973
A portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the National Film Board in 1939.
17 December 1961
When the inland revenue gets an angry mistress's letter exposing a man named Toby as a tax cheat, they quietly put pressure on him.
30 January 2006
A 55-minute documentary, detailing the creation of Doctor Who, including a rare interview with creatn
01 January 1946
A demonstration of the basic skills required to ski.
01 January 1946
Canada's northwest has been opened up by the Alaska Highway. This film looks at the construction of the highway and at the resources and development in the surrounding areas.
08 March 1959
A group discover a famous designer and their entrepreneur sees this as a chance to have his name associated with their new production.
01 January 1951
Canada's tenth province--its people, its resources, its way of life. The camera shows us St. John's, the capital city; Cornerbrook, pulp and paper centre; and Bell Island with its iron mine.
20 September 1959
Young Victor Liebig returns from the theatre with his eccentric Aunt, when he receives a call summoning them to the flat of his Uncle's suicidal mistress.
24 March 2025
A look at the life and work of television producer Innes Lloyd
01 January 1949
In the 1940s thousands of immigrants are coming from Europe to Canada offering strength and skills in exchange for hope and a new life.
07 May 1961
In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked foreman Desmond Doherty with brash Scanling, which angers the men.
25 March 1965
Mysteries abound. What is going on between the wife and her brother? Are they indeed brother and sister? Sisson has his doubts about that … .
01 January 1947
This short documentary is a snapshot of the revolutionary change in status enjoyed by women between the turn of the 20th century and 1947.
03 January 1960
Saville is told by a palm reader he is doomed to become a murderer at some future time. He decides to get the inevitable out of the way before his upcoming society wedding, and goes about attempting the crime on several likely victims.
12 October 1958
Senior officials in the British, American and Russian governments all receive the same cryptic and unsigned message - "I Can Destroy The Sun".
13 September 1964
A television play from Armchair Theatre. Dr. Fancy is charged following the death of Mrs. Sprat's son.
02 July 1961
A ship powered by a nuclear reactor, is heading for the port of New York and is unable to slow down.
10 January 1960
Dad has been living with daughter Jessy for years and she needs a break. She suggests he could live with her prosperous brother George.
06 May 1962
An old man is rescued from Iceland. Why would you need rescuing from Iceland - unless you're Adolf Hitler.
