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name: "Vernon Lawrence"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/vernon-lawrence"
fi1m_id: "vernon-lawrence"
imdb_id: "nm0493067"
tmdb_id: 1220516
roles: ["Director"]
born: "30 April 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:01:19.866395+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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# Vernon Lawrence

## Identity

Vernon Lawrence

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/vernon-lawrence
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** vernon-lawrence
- **IMDb ID:** nm0493067
- **TMDB ID:** 1220516
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0493067/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1220516

Director. Born 30 April 1940 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 30 April 1940, London, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0493067/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1220516

## Biography

Vernon Lawrence is a British television director and producer. Born on 30 April 1940 in London, he has worked extensively in comedy and drama series.

He directed 14 episodes of the ITV sitcom *Duty Free* (1984–1986) and served as producer on the full run of 22 episodes. His other directing credits include episodes of *Rising Damp* (1978), *Only When I Laugh* (1979–1982), *The Bounder* (1982–1983) and *Haggard* (1990–1992). As a producer he worked on series such as *A Bit of a Do* (1989) and *The Darling Buds of May* (1991–1993), and he received BAFTA Television Award nominations for comedy in 1979 and 1987.

*Sources: imdb.com, comedy.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Duty Free* (1984), Fi1m 34, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/duty-free.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters* (1999), Executive Producer
- *Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil* (1999), Executive Producer
- *Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant* (1998), Executive Producer
- *Hornblower: The Even Chance* (1998), Executive Producer
- *Hornblower* (1998), series, Executive Producer
- *Rich Tea and Sympathy* (1991), series, Executive Producer
- *Beecham* (1990), Director
- *A Bit of a Do* (1989), series, Executive Producer
- *Natural Causes* (1988), Director
- *Duty Free* (1984), series, Director — Fi1m 34, [page](https://film.one/tv/duty-free.md)
- *Cleo and John* (1982), Director
- *Only When I Laugh* (1979), series, Producer, Director
- *Dawson and Friends* (1977), series, Producer
- *The Galton & Simpson Playhouse* (1977), series, Producer, Director
- *Les Dawson's Christmas Box* (1974), series, Director, Producer
- *Sounds Like Les Dawson* (1974), Producer, Director

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