---
name: "John Greening"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-greening"
fi1m_id: "john-greening"
imdb_id: "nm0339093"
tmdb_id: 1227832
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:27:52.238645+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."
---

# John Greening

## Identity

John Greening

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-greening
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-greening
- **IMDb ID:** nm0339093
- **TMDB ID:** 1227832
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339093/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1227832

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339093/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1227832

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*EastEnders*](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md) (70)

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

## Biography

John Greening is a British television director and producer. He has directed hundreds of episodes of the BBC soap *EastEnders* since 1991, making him one of the series' most prolific directors, and he also produced four episodes in 2005.

His other directing credits include episodes of *Coronation Street* (2021–2022), *Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators* (2020), *Father Brown* (2015), *Hollyoaks* (2013–2015), *Casualty* (2004–2017), *Robin Hood* (2009) and *Lark Rise to Candleford*. Earlier in his career he worked as a production manager, first assistant director and associate producer on series including *Dalziel and Pascoe* and *The Scarlet Pimpernel*.

*Sources: imdb.com, eastenders.fandom.com, curtisbrown.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *EastEnders* (1985), Fi1m 70, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators* (2018), series, Director
- *The Afternoon Play* (2003), series, Director
- *The Royal* (2003), series, Director
- *Fair Game* (1994), Production Manager
- *Nice Work* (1989), series, Production Manager
- *EastEnders* (1985), series, Producer, Director — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

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