Christopher Hall

Who is Christopher Hall?

Christopher Hall is a British TV drama producer also known as Chris Hall.

He was born in London, the son of Sir Peter Hall and the actress Leslie Caron, and was educated at Bedales School and St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. He has produced dramas primarily for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 networks and worked both in-house and as a freelancer for major British production companies including Kudos, Carnival, Hattrick and Tiger Aspect. He started his career as an assistant director on feature films with David Hare, Paris by Night, Ken Russell, The Lair of the White Worm and as a floor manager and/or assistant director on TV shows such as Inspector Morse and Porterhouse Blue. Working his way up through the grades, he became a Line Producer and then a fully fledged Producer. In 1996 he produced The Final Passage, directed by his father Sir Peter Hall, which won BAFTA and RTS awards for Cinematography.

Hall's best known productions include The Lost World starring Peter Falk, Bob Hoskins, James Fox and Matthew Rhys in 2001. The production was noted for stripping the Conan Doyle text of racial overtones. He also produced Archangel in 2005 starring Daniel Craig, which was adapted from a Robert Harris thriller by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and filmed on location in Moscow and Latvia. In 2011 for Hat Trick for ITV Hall produced Case Sensitive starring Olivia Williams Guardian Review. Hound of the Baskervilles, which starred Richard E. Grant, John Nettles, Ian Hart, Richard Roxburgh and Geraldine James and received a BAFTA nomination for best sound, was another of Hall's productions. Aristocrats, based on the Stella Tillyard biography of the Lennox sisters in 1999 was another major production. One of Hall's drama productions, made as a Christmas show for the BBC in 2003, was the BAFTA-winning The Young Visiters starring Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Sally Hawkins and Simon Russell Beale. It was narrated by Alan Bennett, and directed by David Yates. The score, by Nicholas Hooper, won the BAFTA award for Original Television Music.