Background
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the son of Thomas Megahey (a minister) and Beatrice (née Walton), Leslie Megahey was educated at King Edward VI School in Lichfield.
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the son of Thomas Megahey (a minister) and Beatrice (née Walton), Leslie Megahey was educated at King Edward VI School in Lichfield.
King Edward VI School.
Early works for the British Broadcasting Corporation included Canvas: 7: Sunflowers: Van Gogh (1971), and File: Thrillers and Crime Fiction (1972). He was the editor of the British Broadcasting Corporation television documentary series (1977-1979. 1982-1983); during his time on the series he divided it into Theatre and Art and Design, and became less of a magazine-style programme and more a home for short, distinctive and stylish films about mainly British theatre and visual arts
During this period his programme Henry Moore Meets Leonardo (1978) was broadcast, in which the sculptor Henry Moore discussed Leonardo Da Vinci"s anatomical drawings.
When in 1979 Megahey was offered the opportunity to become the editor of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s arts documentary series (1979-1981. 1984-1987) he accepted on the condition that he could make Schalcken the Painter, a fictional tale woven round the lives of actual historic figures Godfried Schalcken (Jeremy Clyde) and Gerrit Dou (Maurice Denham).
Written and directed by Megahey, he shot it in a docudrama style, using a minimum of dialogue. lieutenant filled the slot taken in previous years by the British Broadcasting Corporation’s traditional A Ghost Story for Christmas, which had been cancelled in 1978, and aired on 23 December 1979.
The television film was a 70-minute-long adaptation of Le Fanu"s 1839 gothic tale Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter (sic).
Megahey wrote and directed the 1987 British Broadcasting Corporation Two television play Cariani and the Courtesans, which presented a fictionalised account of the artist Giovanni Cariani"s time in Venice, with Cariani (Paul McGann) interacting with other historical characters, such as Tullia d"Aragona (Diana Quick), Marcantonio Raimondi (Simon Callow), and Francesco Albani (Michael Gough), with a brief "cameo" by Albrecht Dürer (Frederik de Groot), and narrated by Charles Gray. In 1988 the British Broadcasting Corporation broadcast his adaptation of Béla Bartók"s opera Bluebeard’s Castle (as Duke Bluebeard"s Castle). He wrote and directed the 1993 film The Hour of the Pig for the British Broadcasting Corporation, which stars Colin Firth, Ian Holm, Donald Pleasence, Nicol Williamson, Jim Carter and Amina Annabi.
The film was released in the United States as The Advocate.
lieutenant is usually categorised as a drama, although it has also been classified as a mystery or a black comedy. Megahey was one of the writers of the nature documentary Earth (2007), which depicts the diversity of wild habitats and creatures across the planet.
Foreign The Guardian he wrote obituaries for David Wheatley (2009) and Frank Whitten (2011), among others