Jeremy Israel Israel ISAACS

Background

Isaacs, Jeremy Israel was born on September 28, 1932. Son of Isidore Isaacs and Sara Jacobs.

Education

Student, Glasgow Academy. Student, Merton College, Oxford, England. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Strathclyde, 1983.

Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Bristol, 1988.

Career

Producer, Granada television (What the Papers Say, All Our Yesterdays) 1958, Associated Rediffusion (This Week) 1963. Producer, The World at War 1974, Director of Programmes 1974-1978. Special independent consultant television series Hollywood, Independent Television, A Sense of Freedom, Independent Television, Ireland, a Television Documentary.

Director Royal Opera House since 1988 (Director since 1985).

Governor British Film Institute since 1979. Chairman, British Film Institute Production Board 1979-1981.

James MacTaggart Memorial Lecturer, Edinburgh television Festival 1979. Fellow, Royal Television Society 1978.

Achievements

• Jeremy Israel Isaacs has been listed as a noteworthy Performing company executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Royal television Society, British Academy Film and television Arts, British Film Institute.

Interests

• Avocations: books, walking, sleeping.

Connections

Married 1st Tamara (nee Weinreich) in 1958 (deceased in 1986). Married 2nd Gillian Widdicombe in 1988.

Father:

Isidore Isaacs

Mother:

Sara Jacobs

Spouse:

Gillian Widdicombe

Spouse:

Tamara Weinreich