---
name: "Ian Barber"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ian-barber"
fi1m_id: "ian-barber"
imdb_id: "nm0053399"
tmdb_id: 2792230
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T12:20:08.571815+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."
---

# Ian Barber

## Identity

Ian Barber

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ian-barber
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ian-barber
- **IMDb ID:** nm0053399
- **TMDB ID:** 2792230
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0053399/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2792230

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 1960–1985
- **Frequently works with:** [Afia Nkrumah](https://film.one/person/afia-nkrumah.md), [Alan Wareing](https://film.one/person/alan-wareing.md), [Audrey Cooke](https://film.one/person/audrey-cooke.md), [Clive Arnold](https://film.one/person/clive-arnold.md), [Daran Little](https://film.one/person/daran-little.md), [Gerald Blake](https://film.one/person/gerald-blake.md), [Gill Wilkinson](https://film.one/person/gill-wilkinson.md), [Graeme Harper](https://film.one/person/graeme-harper.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 74 (1), 1980s 70 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0053399/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2792230

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Coronation Street*](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md) (74), [*EastEnders*](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ian Barber is a British television director. He has directed episodes of *Coronation Street* since 2018, as well as *Doctors*, *EastEnders*, *Emmerdale*, *Holby City*, *Father Brown*, *The Coroner*, *Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators*, *Death in Paradise* and *Sister Boniface Mysteries*.

Earlier in his career, Barber worked as an assistant director at the Royal Shakespeare Company on productions including *Henry V*, *King Lear*, *Nicholas Nickleby*, *Coming into Land* and *Les Misérables*.

*Sources: coronationstreet.fandom.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *EastEnders* (1985), Fi1m 70, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)
- *Coronation Street* (1960), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

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

- *The Star of the Orient* (2023), Director
- *Sister Boniface Mysteries* (2022), series, Director
- *Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators* (2018), series, Director
- *The Coroner* (2015), series, Director
- *WPC 56* (2013), series, Director
- *Father Brown* (2013), series, Director
- *Stepping Up* (2012), series, Director, Creator
- *Secrets and Words* (2012), series, Director
- *Death in Paradise* (2011), series, Director
- *Justice* (2011), series, Director
- *Land Girls* (2009), series, Director
- *Moving On* (2009), series, Director
- *Brief Encounters* (2006), series, Director
- *Living It* (2005), series, Director
- *Grease Monkeys* (2003), series, First Assistant Director
- *The Afternoon Play* (2003), series, Director
- *The Royal* (2003), series, Director
- *Judge John Deed* (2001), series, Second Assistant Director
- *Merseybeat* (2001), series, Second Assistant Director
- *Nasty Neighbours* (2000), Second Assistant Director
- *Doctors* (2000), series, Director
- *Holby City* (1999), series, Director
- *King Girl* (1996), Second Assistant Director
- *Dalziel and Pascoe* (1996), series, Second Assistant Director
- *Cruel Train* (1995), Second Assistant Director
- *Dangerfield* (1995), series, Second Assistant Director
- *Martin Chuzzlewit* (1994), series, Second Assistant Director
- *(All Quiet on the) Preston Front* (1994), series, Third Assistant Director
- *Olly's Prison* (1993), Second Assistant Director
- *Chalkface* (1991), series, Third Assistant Director
- *Kinsey* (1991), series, Second Assistant Director
- *EastEnders* (1985), series, Director — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)
- *Emmerdale* (1972), series, Director
- *Coronation Street* (1960), series, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md)

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