Cast & creator
Verity Lambert
Best known for Doctor Who, Doctor Who, Minder
Verity Ann Lambert OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. Lambert began working in television in the 1950s. She began her career as a producer at the BBC by becoming the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who from 1963 until 1965. She left the BBC in 1969 and worked for other television companies, notably having a long association with Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and 1980s. Her many credits as producer include Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder, Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek, Love Soup and Eldorado. She also worked in the film industry for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. From 1985 she ran her own production company, Cinema Verity. She continued to work as a producer until the year she died. 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 only female drama producer, as well as the youngest. 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". 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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Verity Lambert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Verity Ann Lambert
54
film credits
33
television credits
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1963–2023 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (87)
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Doctor Who
Producer
1963Doctor Who
Creator
1963
Minder
Creator
1979Film '72
Self
1971
Jonathan Creek
Producer
1997
Comics
Producer
1993
Quatermass
Executive Producer
1979
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Executive Producer
1983
Tales of the Tardis
Producer
2023
Love Soup
Producer
2005
Widows
Producer
1983
Adam Adamant Lives!
Producer
1966
The Flame Trees of Thika
Producer
1981The Flame Trees of Thika
Executive Producer
1981
Rock Follies
Producer
1976
Fox
Executive Producer
1980
G.B.H.
Executive Producer
1991
The Cazalets
Producer
2001
May to December
Producer
1989
Sleepers
Executive Producer
1991
Shoulder to Shoulder
Producer
1974Shoulder to Shoulder
Creator
1974
So Haunt Me
Producer
1992
Evil Angels
Producer
1988
Class Act
Producer
1994Class Act
Executive Producer
1994Class Act
Creator
1994
She's Out
Producer
1995
Boys from the Bush
Producer
1991
Clockwise
Executive Producer
1986
Morons from Outer Space
Executive Producer
1985
The Nation's Health
Executive Producer
1983
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
2007
The Naked Civil Servant
Executive Producer
1975
Doctor Who: Galaxy 4
Creator
2021
Link
Executive Producer
1986
Dreamchild
Executive Producer
1985
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
(Archive Footage)
2008A Perfect State
Producer
1997
Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour
Producer
2023
Doctor Who: The Chase
Producer
1965
Doctor Who: The Crusade
Producer
1965
Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
Executive Producer
1981
The Story of Doctor Who
2003
Doctor Who: The Daleks
Producer
1964
Doctor Who Then & Now
1987
Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus
Producer
1964
30 Years in the TARDIS
Herself
1993
Dr. Forever!
Herself
2013
Doctor Who: Origins
Self
2006
Macbeth
Executive Producer
1979
Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child
Producer
1963
Doctor Who: The Web Planet
Producer
1965
Doctor Who: Planet of Giants
Producer
1964
Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
Producer
1964
Doctor Who: Marco Polo
Producer
1964
Running Late
Producer
1992
Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Producer
1964
Saigon: Year of the Cat
Producer
1983
Doctor Who: The Sensorites
Producer
1964
Doctor Who: The Aztecs
Producer
1964
Doctor Who: The Romans
Producer
1965
Doctor Who: The Time Meddler
Producer
1965
The Sailor's Return
Executive Producer
1978
Doctor Who: The Space Museum
Producer
1965
The Quatermass Conclusion
Executive Producer
1979
Doctor Who: The Rescue
Producer
1965
Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction
Producer
1964
Doctor Who: Mission to the Unknown
Producer
1965
Over the Edge: The Story of 'The Edge of Destruction'
Self
2006
Daleks! Beyond the Screen
Self
2010
American Roulette
Executive Producer
1988
Doctor Who: Galaxy 4
Producer
1965
Don't Lose Your Head: The Making of 'The Reign of Terror'
Herself (archive footage)
2012
A.D.A.M.
Producer
1973
Masters of Sound
Self (archive footage)
2006
Creation of the Daleks
Herself
2006
Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS
Self
2006
Achilles Heel
Producer
1973
A Night in with the Girls
1997The Last Moguls
Self
1986Sleepers
Executive Producer
1991
Daleks! Conquer and Destroy
Self
2010
Tales of Isop
Self
2005
Vision On
Self (archive footage)
2012
Remembering 'The Aztecs'
Self (in photo) (archive footage)
2002