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name: "Barry Hanson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/barry-hanson"
fi1m_id: "barry-hanson"
imdb_id: "nm0361194"
tmdb_id: 951081
wikidata_id: "Q95869382"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1943"
died: "20 June 2016"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:30:21.151813+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Barry Hanson

## Identity

Barry Hanson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/barry-hanson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** barry-hanson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0361194
- **TMDB ID:** 951081
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95869382
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Hanson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95869382, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0361194/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/951081

Producer. Born 1 January 1943 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. Died 20 June 2016.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1943, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
- **Died:** 20 June 2016
- **Also known as:** Barry Anthony Hanson
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Hanson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95869382, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0361194/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/951081

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Long Good Friday*](https://film.one/film/the-long-good-friday.md) (88)

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## Biography

Barry Hanson (also credited as Barry Anthony Hanson) was a British television and film producer. Born on 10 August 1943 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, he read English at Newcastle University and began his career in theatre publicity at Harrogate Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre, London, before moving into television production.

He produced the series *Second City Firsts* (1973–74) at BBC Pebble Mill and the television film *The Naked Civil Servant* (1975) for ITV. At Thames Television he produced *The Long Good Friday* (1980), which he helped secure a cinema release after its original backers withdrew. Other credits include *Morons from Outer Space* (1985). Hanson died on 20 June 2016.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Long Good Friday* (1980), Fi1m 88, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-long-good-friday.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Resort to Murder* (1995), series, Producer
- *Lady Chatterley* (1993), series, Executive Producer
- *Unnatural Pursuits* (1992), series, Executive Producer
- *Virtual Murder* (1992), series, Executive Producer
- *Out of the Blue* (1991), Producer
- *Broke* (1991), Producer
- *The Play on One* (1988), series, Producer
- *Morons from Outer Space* (1985), Producer
- *Runners* (1983), Producer
- *Wolcott* (1981), series, Executive Producer
- *Very Like a Whale* (1981), Executive Producer
- *The Long Good Friday* (1980), Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-long-good-friday.md)
- *Bloody Kids* (1980), Producer
- *Affront* (1978), Producer
- *Out* (1978), series, Producer
- *We Never Do What They Want* (1978), Producer
- *Two Days That Shook the Branch* (1978), Producer
- *One of the Boys* (1978), Producer
- *Cold Harbour* (1978), Producer
- *Roadrunner* (1977), Director
- *It's Only Rock 'n' Roll* (1977), Producer
- *Cork and Bottle* (1977), Producer
- *The Proofing Session* (1977), Producer
- *It's Not Quite Cricket* (1977), Producer
- *Shuttlecock* (1976), Producer
- *Fast Hands* (1976), Producer
- *Plays for Britain* (1976), series, Producer, Creator
- *The Paradise Run* (1976), Producer
- *The Naked Civil Servant* (1975), Producer
- *Waiting at the Field Gate* (1975), Producer
- *Gangsters* (1975), Producer
- *Squire* (1974), Director
- *Girl* (1974), Producer
- *If a Man Answers* (1973), Director
- *Second City Firsts* (1973), series, Director
- *You and Me and Him* (1973), Director
- *Said the Preacher* (1972), Script Editor
- *ITV Playhouse* (1967), series, Director
- *Thirty-Minute Theatre* (1965), series, Director

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