---
name: "Tom Kingdon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tom-kingdon"
fi1m_id: "tom-kingdon"
tmdb_id: 1806803
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:27:28.861162+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."
---

# Tom Kingdon

## Identity

Tom Kingdon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tom-kingdon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tom-kingdon
- **TMDB ID:** 1806803
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1806803

Producer and director.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Active:** 1983–1985
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 producing
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1806803

## Streaming the US now

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

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

## Biography

Tom Kingdon is a British television director and former cinematographer. He began his career in 1979 as a member of the production team on *BBC Two Play of the Week* and later completed the BBC Director’s Course while working at the corporation for ten years.

Kingdon directed 24 episodes of the BBC soap *EastEnders* across two periods in the late 1980s and mid-1990s. His other directing credits include episodes of *Theatre Night*, *Take the High Road*, *Emmerdale* and *Jupiter Moon*. He has also worked as a production manager and first assistant on feature films and television productions.

After a period as a freelance director of around two hundred productions, Kingdon joined Emerson College in Boston in 1994, where he taught for 26 years and is now Professor Emeritus. He holds an MA from the University of Birmingham and published the book *Total Directing* in 2005.

*Sources: ee-walford.fandom.com, emerson.edu, silmanjamespress.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1)

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

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

- *An Englishman Abroad* (1983), Fi1m 84, Production Manager — [page](https://film.one/film/an-englishman-abroad.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

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

- *Theatre Night* (1985), series, Director
- *EastEnders* (1985), series, Director, Director of Photography — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)
- *An Englishman Abroad* (1983), Production Manager — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/an-englishman-abroad.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/tom-kingdon