
Edward Bazalgette
Director
Place of birth: UK
Biography
Edward Bazalgette is a British television director and former musician. was the lead guitarist in the 1980s rock group The Vapors, whose hit "Turning Japanese" remains a popular one-hit wonder. He later became a film editor, television producer and director. In 2003, the BBC commissioned a seven part series of documentaries called The Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. Edward Bazalgette directed and produced the documentary The Sewer King which charted his great-great-grandfather Sir Joseph Bazalgette's design and engineering of the London sewers. His third cousin Peter Bazalgette later presented a show for Five called The Great Stink.[citation needed]
Filmography (16)
- The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023, ★ 7.2)
- Endeavour (2013, ★ 8.1)
- Genghis Khan (2005, ★ 6.9)
- Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio (2016, ★ 7.4)
- Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (2003, ★ 6.7)
- Doctor Who (2005, ★ 7.6)
- The Guilty (2013, ★ 6.6)
- DCI Banks (2011, ★ 7.1)
- Vera (2011, ★ 7.5)
- The Witcher (2019, ★ 7.9)
- The Last Kingdom (2015, ★ 8.2)
- A Mother's Son (2012, ★ 6.8)
- Marie Antoinette (2022, ★ 7.5)
- Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare (2006, ★ 5.6)
- Class (2016, ★ 6.3)
- Lynley (2025, ★ 5.9)