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Philip J Day
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Philip J Day

British film producer, screenwriter, director and author

Philip J Day is a British film and television producer, director, and writer. He has worked on documentary, factual, and scripted projects for broadcasters including the BBC, Discovery Channel, History, Channel Four, PBS, and the National Geographic Channel.2

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About

His productions have received industry recognition, including a Peabody Award and two Emmy Award wins. Day has been credited on series including National Geographic Explorer, Discovery Channel's Curiosity, Kindred Spirits, Stan Lee's Lucky Man, and Alaska: The Last Frontier. In 2008, he founded Edge West Productions.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedAckworth School3
  • Date not recordedPeterhouse Boys' School3

Day attended Springvale House (Prep School), and Peterhouse Boys' School, near Harare, Zimbabwe. Later he went to Ackworth School, near Pontefract, Yorkshire. Day is the brother of environmental lawyer, Martyn Day (lawyer). He is the son of Hazel Day, a notable actress and opera singer in Yorkshire, and Brian Day (deceased), a chartered accountant. Hazel Day is known for performances with the York light Opera Company. Her best known performances were in Kiss Me Kate, Song of Norway, and Kismet.

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Career

Occupation: television producer, writer.5

In 2023 Day produced The Cello (2023 film), an international co-production starring Jeremy Irons and Tobin Bell, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. That same year he was producer on Patrick Aryee's Wild World for Sky TV. In 2021 Day directed a six-part, crime series Dying to Be Famous, about the suspicious death of model, Ryan Singleton, airing on Bounce TV. That same year, he produced the supernatural reality show, Kindred Spirits.

In 2019, The Russian Bride, starring Corbin Bernsen and Kristina Pimenova, which Day produced, was chosen to close the Fantasporto International Film Festival.

Between 2016 and 2018, Day worked with notable comic book author Stan Lee on Stan Lee's Lucky Man. Day also worked with director Robert Rodriguez for the BBC show Robert Rodriguez' Ten Minute Film School. Day wrote and directed a number of documentaries for National Geographic including a film about D. B. Cooper, a man who has eluded the FBI for over thirty years. His two-hour film about the Luxor massacre was called Massacre in Luxor. In 2000, Day created a series for TLC Why Doctors Make Mistakes. A year later he produced the TV show High Stakes: Bet Your Life on Vegas which partnered with Emmy Award winning actor Ray Liotta. In 2006 he moved to California, where he set up Edge West Productions. Between 2008 and 2018 Edge West won multiple awards for productions like The Skyjacker That Got Away for National Geographic Channel. In 2010 Philip J. Day was nominated for an Emmy Award at the 2010 News and Documentary Emmy Awards for the film The Skyjacker That Got Away.

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Personal life

  • BornHarrogate6
  • CitizenshipUnited Kingdom7

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