James Cellan Jones

Career Cellan Jones's true interest was acting and directing rather than medicine, however, He was also chairman and honorary president of the Directors Guild of Great Britain.

Awards and nominations For the miniseries Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974), Cellan Jones won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. For The Adams Chronicles (1976) he was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series, and was nominated two years successively for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series.

Cellan Jones received seven BAFTA TV nominations, for Roads to Freedom (miniseries, 1970); Eyeless in Gaza (miniseries, 1971); Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (miniseries, 1974); A Fine Romance (series, 1981, 1982), which won the Broadcasting Press Guild award for Best Comedy in 1982; Oxbridge Blues (anthology, eponymous episode, 1984); and Fortunes of War (miniseries, 1987).

Personal life Cellan Jones married television editor and production manager Margot Eavis in 1959, and they had two sons, Simon Cellan Jones, a director, born in 1963; and Deiniol Cellan Jones, a barrister born 1965 who died in November 2013; and a daughter, Lavinia Cellan Jones, born in 1967.

BBC journalist Rory Cellan-Jones is also his son, by Sylvia Rich, a BBC secretary, prior to James' marriage to Margot Eavis.

Selected filmography Esther Waters (TV series, 1964, 4 episodes) The Ambassadors (TV movie, 1965) The Scarlet and the Black (TV miniseries, 1965) An Enemy of the State (TV miniseries, 1965) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (TV miniseries, 1966) Quick Before They Catch Us (TV series, 4 episodes, 1966) The Forsyte Saga (TV miniseries, 1967) Z Cars (2 episodes, 1967) Albinos in Black (Theatre 625, 1968) The Portrait of a Lady (TV miniseries, 1968) Detective (TV series, 2 episodes, 1968) The Way We Live Now (TV movie, 1969) Solo (TV serial, 2 episodes 1970: "Little Gidding", "A Selection from E.E. Cummings") W. Somerset Maugham (TV miniseries, 2 episodes, 1969–1970) The Roads to Freedom (TV miniseries, 1970) The Piano (Play for Today, 1971) Eyeless in Gaza (TV miniseries, 1971), based on novel Eyeless in Gaza A Midsummer Night's Dream (Play of the Month, 1971) The Golden Bowl (TV miniseries, 1972) The Edwardians (TV miniseries, 1972–1973) Bequest to the Nation aka The Nelson Affair (1973) Away from It All (TV anthology, one episode: "A Work of Genius", 1973) Secrets (TV movie, 1973) Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (TV miniseries, 1974) The Adams Chronicles (TV miniseries, 1976) Caesar and Cleopatra (Hallmark Hall of Fame, 1976) The Madness (TV movie, 1976) Sea Change (Centre Play: Showcase, 1976) The Ambassadors ( Play of the Month, 1977) You Never Can Tell ( Play of the Month, 1977) Kean ( Play of the Month, 1978) A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts (Play for Today, 1978) School Play (BBC2 Playhouse, 1979) The Day Christ Died (TV movie, 1980) C2 H5 OH (Play for Today, 1980) Unity (BBC2 Playhouse, 1981) A Fine Romance (TV series, 1981) The Kingfisher (TV movie, 1983) The Comedy of Errors (BBC Shakespeare, 1983) Oxbridge Blues (TV anthology, 4 episodes, 1984) Slip-Up (TV movie, 1986) Fortunes of War (TV miniseries, 1987) Arms and the Man (Theatre Night, 1989) The Bill (TV series, 5 episodes, 1989–1999) A Little Piece of Sunshine (TV movie, 1990) A Perfect Hero (TV miniseries, 1991) The Gravy Train Goes East (TV miniseries, 1991) Maigret (TV series, 3 episodes, 1992) Rumpole of the Bailey (TV series, 1 episode, 1992) The Brighton Belles (TV series, 1 episode, 1993) Scene (TV anthology; 1 episode, "Pig Boy", 1993) Harnessing Peacocks (TV movie, 1993) Class Act (TV series, 2 episodes, 1994) La musique de l'amour: Chouchou (TV movie, 1995) The Vacillations of Poppy Carew (TV movie, 1995) McLibel (TV miniseries, 1997) The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV series, 2 episodes, 1997) Holby City (TV series, 2 episodes, 2001)