Harvey Lilley is an award-winning Executive Producer, Series Producer and Director who makes landmark films and series for the world's major broadcasters, including the BBC, PBS, NBC, Channel 4, Netflix, National Geographic and ITV.
His most recent film, Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me, aired on Channel 4 at Christmas to wide a...
Read MoreHarvey Lilley is an award-winning Executive Producer, Series Producer and Director who makes landmark films and series for the world's major broadcasters, including the BBC, PBS, NBC, Channel 4, Netflix, National Geographic and ITV.
His most recent film, Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me, aired on Channel 4 at Christmas to wide acclaim — "Marvellous. Intensely moving" (The Times).
Recent highlights include:
The Real Peaky Blinders (BBC Two) — "a great documentary series" (The Times)
Falklands War: The Untold Story (Channel 4) — "riveting, unexpectedly critical... a remarkable film. Mesmerising TV" (The Times)
The Crown Jewels with Clive Myrie (BBC One)
Judi Dench's Who Do You Think You Are? — six million viewers
The Unseen Queen (BBC One) — Broadcast Awards nominated; a feature-length documentary using Queen Elizabeth II's home movies
The Coronation (BBC One) — "the ultimate TV prize" (New York Times)
The RAF at 100 with Ewan McGregor (BBC One) — "mesmerising history" (The Times)
My Passion for Trees with Dame Judi Dench
Italy's Invisible Cities with Alexander Armstrong (BBC1)
He has also made several acclaimed series, including Meet the Izzards (BBC One), in which Eddie Izzard traced his genetic inheritance using his own DNA; Bomber Boys (BBC One) with Ewan McGregor; and Africa — an epic eight-part series for National Geographic and PBS exploring the continent's ecology through the lives of ordinary people.
His 90-minute specials include The Vikings Uncovered (BBC One/PBS) and Egypt's Lost Cities (BBC One), which used satellite archaeology to discover lost pyramids and thousands of lost cities.
Harvey began his career as a dubbing editor — most notably on the beloved The Wrong Trousers (Aardman Animations) — before moving into directing observational documentaries at BBC Bristol. He went on to work for Granada on the four-part docu-drama Rebels and Redcoats (BBC Two), and later at Quickfire Media, where he made The Last Tommy(BBC One), Bobby Moore (BBC Two) and In the Footsteps of Churchill (BBC Two), among others. He has also worked in Los Angeles for NBC on the first US series of Who Do You Think You Are?
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