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James Leslie John Woodhead, OBE (born 1937) is a British documentary filmmaker. For his National Service commencing in 1956, he served in Fife at the Joint Services School for Linguists where he was taught Russian. He was posted to West Berlin to monitor the communications of Soviet pilots flying in and out of East Germany.
Leslie Woodhead. Ella: Just One of Those Things. As a lifelong jazz fan, this has been a labour of love for me. The film follows her extraordinary journey over six decades as her sublime voice transforms the tragedies of her own life and the troubles of her times into joy.
Leslie Woodhead is one of Britain’s most distinguished documentary film makers, and winner of many international awards . He began his 40 year career at Granada Television in Manchester as a Graduate Trainee in 1961 after reading English at Cambridge .
Woodhead’s major work at Granada in the 1970s and 1980s was in pioneering Dramatised Documentaries, and in Anthropological Films for the Disappearing World series.
Leslie Woodhead was born in August 1937 in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. He is a director and producer, known for A Cry from the Grave (1999), Nova (1974) and The Holocaust on Trial (2000).
Leslie Woodhead was born in August 1937 in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. He is a director and producer, known for A Cry from the Grave (1999), Nova (1974) and The Holocaust on Trial (2000).
Aug 15, 2020 · An only child, living above a shop in a repressed post-war Halifax, Leslie Woodhead grew up with austerity and secrets. But nothing prepared him for the comically bleak RAF training camps he now found himself in, nor the isolated, brutally cold Joint Services School for Linguistics on the east coast of Scotland.
