Gabrielle Beaumont

British film and television director (1942–2022)

Olaf Pooley

(m. 1982, separated)

Gabrielle Beaumont (7 April 1942 – 8 October 2022) was a British film and television director.

Her directing credits range from Hill Street Blues to Star Trek: The Next Generation.^[1] She became the first woman to direct an episode of Star Trek, with the episode "Booby Trap".^[2] Beaumont lobbied to have Joan Collins cast as Alexis Colby in Dynasty.^[1]

Beaumont was best known for directing, writing and producing the television special Diana: A Tribute to the People's Princess. She directed a film version of Bernard Taylor's The Godsend.^[3]

Daphne du Maurier was her cousin.^[1]

Beaumont died at her home in Fornalutx on 8 October 2022, at the age of 80.^[1]

Selected filmography

Sources:^[1]^[3]

Diana: A Tribute to the People's Princess
Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus
The Other Woman
Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy
Fatal Inheritance
Riders
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
L.A. Law
He's My Girl
Hill Street Blues
Gone Are the Dayes
Secrets of a Mother and Daughter
Dynasty
Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story
M*A*S*H
The Waltons
The Godsend

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Barnes, Mike (14 December 2022). "Gabrielle Beaumont, Pioneering TV Director, Dies at 80". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
^ "Hanelle Culpepper Chosen To Direct Star Trek Picard Show Premiere Episodes". TrekMovie.com. 1 March 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b Gabrielle Beaumont Biography (1942–), Film Reference