| Activity | Martin Arnold Lisemore was a British television producer. He was responsible for many period drama adaptations for the BBC, including ‘Jude the Obscure’, 1971, ‘Sense and Sensibility,’ 1971, and ‘Emma,’ 1972.
Lisemore became a leading producer of classic period drama for the BBC, often working in partnership with script editor Betty Willingale.
He achieved his greatest success with the dramatisations of ‘The Pallisers,’ 1974, ‘How Green Was My Valley,’ 1975–76, and ‘I Claudius,’ 1976, the later winning both BAFTA and Emmy awards.
Sadly, on 3 February 1977, during the production of his next series, ‘Murder Most English’, Lisemore was killed in a road accident. |