Background
He was born in Liverpool, England and started his professional career in the theatre.
He was born in Liverpool, England and started his professional career in the theatre.
He has directed eight films since 1985. Written and directed by Ken Campbell & Chris Langham and starring Prunella Gee, Jim Broadbent and David Rappaport. Bernard directed his first play The Immortalist by Heathcote Williams and went on to direct others, most notably The Maids by Jean Genet, Lainey Robertson’s The Insanity of Mary Girard and Heroes, about the war poet Wilfred Owen.
After working as a script writer for the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside.
His debut film was Letter to Brezhnev.