Background
Templeton was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of the Glasgow playwright and screenwriter, William Templeton.
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Christopher Templeton
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He graduated from the London International Film School in 1985 but his first writing and directing work was for radio.
Career
Templeton secured several commissions from the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service, broadcasting new and politically charged plays on the "Play for the Week" flagship series. His first production, Mirad, A Boy from Bosnia, secured wide critical acclaim. Sue Gaisford, drama critic of the Observer, describing the production as "..almost unbearably moving".
Whilst Mirad amplified the human cost of the Bosnian genocide, later productions, like Rupa Lucian, Child of Romania exposed the atrocities of the ‘Securitatae’, Romania’s secret police.
Templeton continued at the World Service to write and present the first non-religious content for the Pause for Thought series with other leading secularists including Nicolas Walter and Doctor.Richard Dawkins. 1n 1996, Templeton coordinated the United Kingdom campaign of death row artist, Manuel Salazar.
The campaign secured an 11th hour reprieve from execution with Templeton’s campaign documentary ‘Trial and Error’ (broadcast on National Broadcasting Company), provoking an Early Day Motion, signed by 47 MPs in the House of Parliament as well as the attention of Amnesty International, legal figures including Alun Jones Queen's Counsel, academics such as Professor Rodolfo Acuña, as well as Pope John Paul World War II
