{"id":527336,"date":"2022-12-15T01:14:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T22:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gabrielle-beaumont-pioneering-tv-director-dies-at-80\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T01:14:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T22:14:21","slug":"gabrielle-beaumont-pioneering-tv-director-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gabrielle-beaumont-pioneering-tv-director-dies-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"#Gabrielle Beaumont, Pioneering TV Director, Dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a416c822a534\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a416c822a534\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gabrielle-beaumont-pioneering-tv-director-dies-at-80\/#Gabrielle_Beaumont_Pioneering_TV_Director_Dies_at_80\" >Gabrielle Beaumont, Pioneering TV Director, Dies at 80<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Gabrielle_Beaumont_Pioneering_TV_Director_Dies_at_80\"><\/span>Gabrielle Beaumont, Pioneering TV Director, Dies at 80<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Gabrielle Beaumont, the British director who broke ground for women in Hollywood by helming episodes of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> including <em>M*A*S*H<\/em>, <em>The Waltons<\/em>, <em>Hill Street Blues<\/em> and <em>Dynasty<\/em> during her five-decade career, has died. She was 80.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Beaumont died peacefully Oct. 8 at her home in Fornalutx, Mallorca, Spain, her brother, actor-producer Christopher Toyne, announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    As one of the most prolific female directors in the history of primetime television, the Emmy-nominated Beaumont also handled installments of <em>Knots Landing<\/em>, <em>The Dukes of Hazzard<\/em>, <em>Miami Vice<\/em>, <em>Cagney &amp; Lacey<\/em>, <em>Doogie Howser, M.D.<\/em>, <em>L.A. Law<\/em>, <em>Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman<\/em>, <em>Law &amp; Order<\/em> and three <em>Star Trek<\/em> series, among many other shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    After her British horror film <em>The Godsend<\/em> (1980) opened in the U.S., Beaumont came to Hollywood seeking work and got a meeting with Aaron Spelling, bringing with her two cans of films that she had worked on. (At that time, women were designated a \u201cminority\u201d in California law, and the famed TV producer was under pressure to hire women behind the camera.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Spelling didn\u2019t bother to look at her films, asking her, \u201cCan you goddamn direct?\u201d She replied, \u201cGoddamn, yes!\u201d and was on a plane that night to take on a 1980 episode of ABC\u2019s <em>Vega$<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Spelling hired her many more times, including on <em>Dynasty<\/em> \u2014 she lobbied to cast her friend, Joan Collins, as Alexis \u2014 <em>Hart to Hart<\/em>, <em>Hotel<\/em>, <em>The Colbys<\/em>, <em>Beverly Hills, 90210<\/em>, <em>7th Heaven<\/em> and <em>Melrose Place<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Beaumont was born in London on April 7, 1942. Her mother, Diana Beaumont, was a leading lady in British films and plays; her father, Gabriel Toyne, was a stuntman and actor who taught the likes of Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness in the art of sword fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Beaumont trained at the BBC, entered the film industry as an editor and then worked as a first assistant director and production manager before producing such horror films as <em>The Johnstown Monster <\/em>and <em>The Corpse<\/em>, both released in 1971. She also directed and produced documentaries and dramas for the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Later, Beaumont would direct telefilms including 1981\u2019s <em>Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story, <\/em>1993\u2019s <em>Riders<\/em>, 1995\u2019s <em>The Other Woman<\/em> \u2014 she won a Humanitas Prize for that \u2014 and 1998\u2019s <em>Diana: A Tribute to the People\u2019s Princess<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    She became the first woman to direct an episode of <em>Star Trek<\/em> in 1989 with the <em>Next Generation<\/em> episode \u201cBooby Trap.\u201d She called the shots for seven episodes of that show and also worked on <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em> and <em>Voyager<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Beaumont spent the last decade of her life in Spain, where she shot commercials and wrote. She recently adapted <em>The King\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a><\/em>, a 1946 book written by her cousin Daphne du Maurier, as a miniseries, her brother said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    She was married to British actor, screenwriter and artist Olaf Pooley and to cinematographer Michael J. Davis. In addition to her brother, survivors include her sister-in-law, former Disney executive Esther Ewert.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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