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name: "Richard Boden"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/richard-boden"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "4 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T07:07:30.826605+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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# Richard Boden

Producer and director. Born 4 January 1953 in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 4 January 1953, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
- **Active:** 1983–2017
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 producing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 84 (1), 2010s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Boden, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7324232, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0090877/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/170258

## Streaming the US now

- **BritBox:** [*Blackadder*](https://film.one/tv/blackadder.md) (84)

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

## Biography

Richard Boden (born 4 January 1953) is a British television director and producer. He began his career at the BBC in the 1970s, progressing through production roles before directing light entertainment programmes from 1983. He later served as Head of Comedy at Carlton and Central Television until going freelance in 2001.

Boden is known for directing episodes of *'Allo 'Allo!*, *Blackadder Goes Forth* (1989) and *Blackadder's Christmas Carol* (1988), as well as series including *2point4 Children* and *Upstart Crow* (2016–2018). He has also produced *The IT Crowd* (from 2008), *Life of Riley* and *Motherland*. *Blackadder Goes Forth* received a BAFTA Television Award for Best Comedy Series.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, comedy.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1)

- *Blackadder* (1983), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/blackadder.md)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *Motherland* (2017), Fi1m 74, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/motherland-2017.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong* (2017), Director
- *Motherland* (2017), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/motherland-2017.md)
- *Upstart Crow* (2016), series, Director
- *Comedy Showcase* (2007), series, Director
- *Al Murray, The Pub Landlord - Giving It Both Barrels* (2006), Director
- *The IT Crowd* (2006), series, Producer
- *Al Murray, The Pub Landlord - My Gaff, My Rules* (2003), Director, Producer
- *2Point4 Children* (1991), series, Producer
- *Blackadder's Christmas Carol* (1988), Director
- *In Sickness and in Health* (1985), series, Producer, Director
- *'Allo 'Allo!* (1984), series, Director
- *Blackadder* (1983), series, Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/blackadder.md)

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