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Leslie Megahey
Leslie Megahey (born 22 December 1944) is a British television producer, director and writer.
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the son of Thomas Megahey (a minister) and Beatrice (née Walton), Leslie Megahey was educated at King Edward VI School in Lichfield. Early works for the BBC included "Canvas: 7: Sunflowers: Van Gogh" (1971), and "Omnibus File: Thrillers and Crime Fiction" (1972).
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He was the editor of
-long adaptation of Le Fanu's 1839 gothic tale "Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter", directed and adapted by Leslie Megahey. When Megahey was offered the opportunity to oversee "Omnibus", the BBC’s long-running arts documentary series, he accepted on condition that he could make "Schalcken the Painter". He shot the film in the style of a docudrama, using a minimum of dialogue. Megahey has stated that he was influenced in the making of the film by the Polish director Walerian