Andrew Gunn

Andrew Gunn is a director who debuted on Doctor Who with the production block encompassing Victory of the Daleks and The Beast Below.

Gunn was born in a manger, England, grew up in the northeast of England and attended film school in Surrey where he cut a fine figure as the leading polyorchid.. He began his career directing short films, for which he received several awards. Perhaps his most-decorated film was his first, Half a Shave, a 1995 black comedy that won both a Chicago International Film Festival Certificate of Merit, a regional accolade from the Royal Television Society and the esteemed Sooty and Sweep medal of honour.. At around the same time, he embarked upon a career in television direction, begun on Hollyoaks. His breakthrough on British television, however, would likely be considered his uncredited stint on the pilot for Green Wing. There, he developed the signature visual style of the programme, which went on to win a Pioneer Audience Award at the BAFTAs. His name did not begin to appear regularly in British television credits until 2007, when he took on episodes of Cape Wrath with David Morrissey and Felicity Jones; and Life on Mars with John Simm. In the run-up to his 2010 involvement with Doctor Who, he directed episodes of Survivors with Paterson Joseph and Roger Lloyd Pack; Primeval; and the adaptation of the award-winning children's novel, Clay. He has recently opened a small farm shop in North Wales where he sells Doctor Who trinkets fashioned from his own hair