Robert Tronson (1924-2008)

[Michael Rhodes]

Robert Tronson, film and television director, was born on May 18,
1924. He died on November 27, 2008, aged 84...After a brief spell in
British cinema in the early 1960s the director Robert Tronson made his
career in television, where over a period of nearly 40 years he
notched up about 150 credits on single plays and episodes of popular
series from The Avengers to Hetty Wainthropp Investigates.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5320874.ece

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[Michael Rhodes]

Robert du Coudré Tronson, television and film director: born Chilmark,
Wiltshire 18 May 1924; married 1965 Nona Richards (died 1987; one
son); died London 27 November 2008.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/robert-tronson-director-whose-television-work-included-the-avengers-and-the-darling-buds-of-may-1242502.html

The director Robert Tronson spent most of his working life in
television. He brought his relaxed manner, floppy fedora and brightly
coloured socks to dozens of sets and locations and was particularly
adept with crime dramas, mysteries and adventure series. He worked on
such popular programmes as The Avengers (1961), The Saint (1965),
Father Brown (1974), Bergerac (1983-88) and Dempsey & Makepeace
(1986), but his straightforward manner made him equally at ease with
gentler dramas including All Creatures Great and Small (1978-88) and
The Darling Buds of May (1991-93).

Tronson's other television work included The Baron (1967), Callan
(1967-69), Hunter's Walk (1973), the four-part Lord Peter Wimsey
detective drama Five Red Herrings (1975), Juliet Bravo (1982), Boon
(1987), The Bill (1989), Rumpole of the Bailey (1991-92) and Hetty
Wainthropp Investigates (1996-98).

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