Everything about Stuart Hood totally explained
Stuart Hood (born
December 17,
1915 in
Edzell,
Angus,
Scotland) is a
Scottish novelist,
translator and a former
British television producer and executive.
Life
Hood's father was an infant school headmaster, firstly in Edzell and then in
Montrose. After school he attended the
University of Edinburgh between 1934 and 1938.
During the
Second World War he served in the British Army as an Intelligence Officer. He spent a year in Italy as a prisoner of war before joining the
partisans.
From 1961 until 1963 Hood was the Controller of the
BBC Television Service. He became the overall Controller of BBC Television in 1963 with the preparations for the launch of
BBC Two, with his former assistant
Donald Baverstock working under him to Control
BBC One and
Michael Peacock doing the same for the new channel.
On resigning from the BBC, he worked briefly at
Rediffusion London as Controller.
During the 1970s he was Professor of Film and Television at the
Royal Academy of Art.
He was active in the
ACTT union and was a member of the
Socialist Labour League between 1973 and 1978.
Writings
Hood is known as a translator, beginning with
Ernst Jünger's
On the Marble Cliffs" in 1946. He also translated
Erich Fried,
Dario Fo and
Pier Paolo Pasolini.
He has also written the novels
A Storm From Paradise (1985) and
The Upper Hand (1987).
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