---
name: "Ruth Caleb"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ruth-caleb"
fi1m_id: "ruth-caleb"
imdb_id: "nm0129827"
tmdb_id: 55419
wikidata_id: "Q19956697"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "13 May 1942"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T17:06:21.004175+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."
---

# Ruth Caleb

## Identity

Ruth Caleb

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ruth-caleb
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ruth-caleb
- **IMDb ID:** nm0129827
- **TMDB ID:** 55419
- **Wikidata ID:** Q19956697
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Caleb, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19956697, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0129827/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55419

Producer. Born 13 May 1942.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 13 May 1942
- **Active:** 1988–2014
- **Frequently works with:** Dominic Savage
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Caleb, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19956697, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0129827/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55419

## Biography

Ruth Caleb (born 13 May 1942) is a British film and television producer. She was appointed head of drama at BBC Wales in the mid-1980s, becoming the BBC's first female head of drama.

Her credits include the films *Tomorrow La Scala!* (2002), *When I Was 12* (2001), *Nice Girl* (2000), *Care* (2000) and *Pat and Margaret* (1994), and the television films *Can You Hear Me Thinking?* (1990) and *Sweet as You Are* (1988). She has also produced *Last Resort* (2000), *Bullet Boy* (2004) and the series *Judge John Deed* (2001–2007).

Caleb received the Alan Clarke BAFTA Award in 2001 and a lifetime achievement award at the Women in Film and Television Awards in 2012. She was appointed OBE in 2004 for services to drama.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Tomorrow La Scala!* (2002), Fi1m 59, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/tomorrow-la-scala.md)

## Complete filmography (59)

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

- *A Poet in New York* (2014), Producer
- *Walter's War* (2008), Producer
- *Four Last Songs* (2007), Producer
- *Born Equal* (2006), Producer
- *Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart* (2006), Producer
- *Shooting Dogs* (2006), Executive Producer
- *Love + Hate* (2005), Executive Producer
- *Bullet Boy* (2004), Producer
- *Red Dust* (2004), Producer
- *The Other Boleyn Girl* (2003), Producer
- *Rehab* (2003), Producer
- *Tomorrow La Scala!* (2002), Producer — Fi1m 59, [page](https://film.one/film/tomorrow-la-scala.md)
- *Out of Control* (2002), Producer
- *When I Was 12* (2001), Producer
- *Care* (2000), Producer
- *Nice Girl* (2000), Producer
- *Last Resort* (2000), Producer
- *Bravo Two Zero* (1999), Producer
- *The Theory of Flight* (1999), Producer
- *Drovers' Gold* (1997), series, Producer
- *A Relative Stranger* (1996), Executive Producer
- *Trip Trap* (1996), Producer
- *Stonewall* (1995), Producer
- *Streetlife* (1995), Producer
- *The Making of Maps* (1995), Executive Producer
- *Oliver's Travels* (1995), series, Executive Producer
- *Dafydd* (1995), Executive Producer
- *Pat and Margaret* (1994), Producer
- *The Lifeboat* (1994), series, Executive Producer
- *Century* (1993), Executive Producer
- *Genghis Cohn* (1993), Producer
- *The Cormorant* (1993), Executive Producer
- *Losing Track* (1992), Producer
- *Black and Blue* (1992), Producer
- *Civvies* (1992), series, Producer
- *The Count of Solar* (1992), Producer
- *Can You Hear Me Thinking?* (1990), Producer
- *Keeping Tom Nice* (1990), Producer
- *Close Relations* (1990), Producer
- *The Mountain and the Molehill* (1989), Producer
- *Nineteen96* (1989), Producer
- *The Act* (1989), Producer
- *A Night on the Tyne* (1989), Producer
- *Testimony of a Child* (1989), Producer
- *Between The Cracks* (1988), Producer
- *Out Of Love* (1988), Producer
- *Stanley* (1988), Producer
- *Sweet as You Are* (1988), Producer
- *Shergar* (1986), Producer
- *Raspberry Ripple* (1986), Producer
- *Ms Rhymney Valley* (1985), Producer
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, Producer
- *Month of the Doctors* (1982), series, Producer
- *Oppenheimer* (1980), series, Associate Producer
- *Supernatural* (1977), series, Unit Production Manager
- *Cinderella CND* (1977), Director
- *Jubilee 1977* (1977), series, Director
- *Second Verdict* (1976), series, Unit Production Manager
- *The Post Office Girl*, Producer

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