---
name: "Renny Rye"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/renny-rye"
fi1m_id: "renny-rye"
imdb_id: "nm0002723"
tmdb_id: 175921
wikidata_id: "Q22087293"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "2 December 1947"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T13:48:23.767703+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."
---

# Renny Rye

## Identity

Renny Rye

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/renny-rye
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** renny-rye
- **IMDb ID:** nm0002723
- **TMDB ID:** 175921
- **Wikidata ID:** Q22087293
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renny_Rye, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22087293, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002723/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/175921

Director. Born 2 December 1947 in Cambridge, England.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 2 December 1947, Cambridge, England
- **Also known as:** 레니 라이
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renny_Rye, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22087293, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002723/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/175921

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Midsomer Murders*](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md) (66)

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

## Biography

Renny Rye is a British television director. He began his career as a producer on the children's programme *Blue Peter* in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and directed the BBC adaptation of *The Box of Delights* (1984).

Rye is known for his collaborations with Dennis Potter, directing *Lipstick on Your Collar* (1993) and the linked serials *Karaoke* and *Cold Lazarus* (1996). He has directed episodes of long-running series including *Agatha Christie's Poirot*, *Casualty*, *Silent Witness* and 23 episodes of *Midsomer Murders* between 2004 and 2017.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), Fi1m 66, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

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

- *Vital Signs* (2006), series, Director
- *Two Thousand Acres of Sky* (2001), series, Director
- *Close and True* (2000), series, Director
- *Oliver Twist* (1999), series, Director
- *Sunburn* (1999), series, Director
- *Big Women* (1998), series, Director
- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), series, Director — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md)
- *Family Money* (1997), series, Director
- *Cold Lazarus* (1996), series, Director
- *Karaoke* (1996), series, Director
- *Silent Witness* (1996), series, Director
- *Kavanagh Q.C.* (1995), series, Director
- *Midnight Movie* (1994), Director
- *Chandler & Co* (1994), series, Director
- *Lipstick on Your Collar* (1993), series, Director
- *The Other Side Of Paradise* (1992), series, Director
- *TECX* (1990), series, Director
- *The Paradise Club* (1989), series, Director
- *Agatha Christie's Poirot* (1989), series, Director
- *The Gemini Factor* (1987), series, Director
- *Casualty* (1986), series, Director
- *The December Rose* (1986), series, Director
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, Director
- *The Box of Delights* (1984), series, Director
- *Dramarama* (1983), series, Director
- *Ghost in the Water* (1982), Director
- *Squadron* (1982), series, Director
- *Maggie* (1981), series, Director
- *A Moment in Time* (1979), Director
- *Rentaghost* (1976), series, Director
- *Blue Peter* (1958), series, Producer, Assistant Editor

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