Phillip Whitehead Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Phillip Whitehead, (30 May 1937 – 31 December 2005) was a British Labour politician, television producer and writer.Born in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, he was adopted by a local family, and attended Lady Manners School in Bakewell and Exeter College at Oxford University, where he obtained his BA degree.Whitehead went up to Oxford following in his adoptive parents' footsteps as a Conservative. He was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association and the Oxford Union in 1961. However, by the end of his time there he had convinced himself that his true place was in the Labour Party (see ref 1, from Exeter College Register).
Labour Member of Parliament (1970-1983) and Member of the European Parliament from 1994 until his death.
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Chairman of Brook Lapping Productions from 2002.
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In 1969 he was the youngest ever winner of the Guild of TV Producers Award for Factual Programmes and 25 years later he won the Broadcasting Press Guild Best Documentary Award and Emmy Award for Best Script for his programme "The Kennedys".
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Educated at Lady Manners' Grammar School, Bakwell, Derbyshire and Exeter College, Oxford.
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Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Labour Party representing the East Midlands until his death. Labour MP for Derby North from 1970 to 1983
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He was seconded to the Royal West African Frontier Force spending 18 months in Gambia training African soldiers - a formative experience and one that led to a lifelong interest in Commonwealth affairs.
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He was a writer, television producer and politician. He was under a good deal of pressure from party and colleagues insisting on introducing his Vasectomy Bill in 1972.
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
American Experience
1992-2009
TV Series documentary producer - 2 episodes
Catherine the Great
2005
TV Movie executive producer
Queen Victoria's Empire
2001
TV Series documentary executive producer - 4 episodes
Last of the Czars
1996
TV Mini-Series documentary executive producer - 3 episodes
The Churchills
1996
TV Mini-Series documentary executive producer - 2 episodes
$700,000
