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Verity Ann Lambert OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. She was the founding producer of the science-fiction series ''Doctor Who'' and she had a long association with Thames Television. Her many credits include ''Adam Adamant Lives!'', ''The Naked Civil Servant'', ''Rock Follies'', ''Minder'', ''Widows'', ''G.B.H.'', ''Jonathan Creek'' and ''Love Soup''. Lambert began working in television in the 1950s and continued to work as a producer until the year she died. After leaving the BBC in 1969, she worked for other television companies, notably Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and '80s. She also worked in the film industry, for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. From 1985, she ran her own production company, Cinema Verity. The British Film Institute's ''Screenonline'' website describes Lambert as "one of those producers who can often create a fascinating small screen universe from a slim script and half-a-dozen congenial players." Women were rarely television producers in Britain at the beginning of Lambert's career. When she was appointed to ''Doctor Who'' in 1963, she was BBC Television's youngest and sole female drama producer. The website of the Museum of Broadcast Communications hails her as "not only one of Britain's leading businesswomen, but possibly the most powerful member of the nation's entertainment industry ... Lambert has served as a symbol of the advances won by women in the media". ==Early career in independent television== Lambert was born in London, the daughter of a Jewish accountant, and educated at Roedean School. She left Roedean at sixteen and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris for a year and at a secretarial college in London for eighteen months. She later credited her interest in the structural and characterisational aspects of scriptwriting to an inspirational English teacher. Lambert's first job was the typing of menus at the Kensington De Vere Hotel, which employed her because she had been to France and could speak French. In 1956, she entered the television industry as a secretary at Granada Television's press office. She was sacked from this job after six months.〔 Following her dismissal from Granada, Lambert took a job as a shorthand-typist at ABC Television.〔 She soon became the secretary to the company's Head of Drama and then a production secretary working on a programme called ''State Your Case''.〔 She then moved from administration to production, working on drama programming on ABC's popular anthology series ''Armchair Theatre'', which was then overseen by the new Head of Drama, Canadian producer Sydney Newman. Catastrophic incidents could occur on live television of this era. On 30 November 1958, while Lambert was working as a Production Assistant on ''Armchair Theatre'', an actor died during a broadcast of ''Underground'' and she had to take responsibility for directing the cameras from the studio gallery while director Ted Kotcheff worked with the actors on the studio floor to accommodate the loss. In 1961, Lambert left ABC, spending a year working as the personal assistant to American television producer David Susskind at the independent production company Talent Associates in New York.〔 Returning to England, she rejoined ABC with an ambition to direct, but she got stuck as a Production Assistant and decided that, if she could not find advancement within a year, she would abandon television as a career.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Verity Lambert」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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