Jason Isaacs, Stephen Poliakoff and Maureen Lipman have paid tribute to Mike Vardy, the British TV director whose credits included Z Cars, The Sweeney and The Bill.
Vardy died last month, aged 91. He was viewed as an actors’ director, who worked on a variety of top, BAFTA-winning shows. He was repped by iconic British agent Jenne Casarotto, who died in 2024.
White Lotus star Isaacs, who was directed by Vardy in 1989 drama Capital City, said: “When I met Mike I was an overexcited idiot doing my first tv series and he was a veteran director with thirty years of experience over me, yet he did that immensely generous thing of pretending that my ideas were worth listening to (they weren’t) and that he didn’t know much more than me (he really did). Among his many creative gifts, the ability to make everyone feel valued and heard
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