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Kevin Billington

Director

Born - 12 June 1934, Warrington, Cheshire, England
Died - 13 December 2021

Tall, bespectacled British director whose work was briefly popular in the 1970s. After beginnings in TV documentaries, he moved into cinema and made Interlude (1968), The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970), The Light at the Edge of the World (1971), Voices (1973) and Reflections (1984). Later, he served as chairman of Bafta and taught at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. The brother-in-law of playwright Harold Pinter, he died from cancer.