Brian Gibson (22 September 1944 – 4 January 2004) was an English film and television director.
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Early life and education
Gibson was born 22 September 1944 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. His mother, Victoria, was a shop assistant and his father was a carpenter. He had a sister, June. Gibson attended Southend High School for Boys and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he studied medicine. He also studied History of Science at Darwin College, Cambridge. He graduated from Cambridge University.
Career
In the late 1960s, Gibson began working for the BBC, directing scientific documentaries for their long-running series Horizon. One standout episode entitled "Joey," about Joey Deacon, a lifelong brain-damaged man who found a way to communicate with his family through another similarly affected patient at his hospital, won him an SFTA Award for Best Specialized Programme of 1974.
Gibson directed Helen Mirren in the 1979 BBC film Blue Remembered Hills and his work on that film won him a BAFTA Award for Best Director.
