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George Gallaccio

Known For
Production

Known Credits
4

Gender
Male

Birthday
December 23, 1938 (87 years old)

Place of Birth

George Gallaccio

Biography

George Gallaccio (born 23 December 1938) is a British retired television producer who previously worked as a production assistant and production unit manager. His most prominent work was as the producer on two BBC detective drama series, Miss Marple (1985–1992), based on the novels by Agatha Christie, and Bergerac (1988–1991), for which he was the final producer.

Gallaccio began his career at the BBC in the early 1970s. He was the production assistant on Moonbase 3 (1973), which was created by the Doctor Who production team of Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks. He also worked as a production unit manager (PUM), a new role created at the BBC which meant that he was in charge of the budgets for a given production. In this capacity he worked on Doctor Who between 1974 and 1976, and briefly appeared on screen as one of the faces in the mind-bending sequence of The Brain of Morbius (1976), later suggested as an early incarnation of the Doctor by producer Philip Hinchcliffe. He also worked on the BBC's adaptations of David Copperfield (1974–75) and Anna Karenina (1977).

Gallaccio worked as a drama producer for the first time on the six-part serial The Legend of Robin Hood (1975) and later produced two series for BBC Scotland, the supernatural The Omega Factor (1979) and the Andrea Newman serial Mackenzie (1980). He was the BBC management's first choice to produce Doctor Who following the departure of Graham Williams in 1980, but turned it down. Between 1988 and 1991, he served as the final producer of Bergerac, the detective drama series set in Jersey. He produced several Miss Marple dramas between 1985 and 1992.

Known For

Production

1992Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side...Producer
1991Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors...Producer
1989Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery...Producer
1987Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington...Producer
1987Miss Marple: Nemesis...Producer
1987Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel...Producer
1987Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder...Producer
1986Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage...Producer
1985Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye...Producer
1984Miss Marple: The Body in the Library...Associate Producer
1980Mackenzie...Producer
1976Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom...Production Manager
1975The Legend of Robin Hood...Producer
1975Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars...Production Manager
1975Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons...Production Manager
1975Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen...Production Manager
1975Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks...Production Manager
1975Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment...Production Manager
1975Doctor Who: The Ark in Space...Production Manager
1975Doctor Who: Robot...Production Manager
1973Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks...Production Assistant

Directing

1979The Omega Factor...Director

Creator

1975The Legend of Robin Hood...Creator

Acting

2022Remembers…as
2020Our Sarah Jane: The Life of Elisabeth Sladenas Self
2007Are Friends Electric?as
1976Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbiusas Morbius Doctor (picture) (uncredited)