Born in Cambridge in 1950 and educated at Eton, Edward Bennett is a British director who has worked mainly in television since 1978, including episodes of Bergerac, C.A.T.S. Eyes and Inspector Morse. His most notable film is Ascendancy (1983), set in Ireland during the First World War, about a woman of the Anglo-Irish landowning class who comes to understand the independence movement. It won the Golden Bear at the 33rd Berlin Film Festival, and he sat on the Berlin jury the following year.
Filmography
- Ascendancy (1983)