Charles Sturridge (born 24th June, 1951) worked as a director on Coronation Street in 1978 with 15 episodes to his credit. Previously an actor (he played Edward VII as a teenager in the 1975 serial by ATV of the same name), he has gone on to great success in film, directing Fairytale: A True Story and Shackleton. He both wrote and directed episodes of the 1981 series Brideshead Revisited, as well as directing the critically-acclaimed 1996 mini-series Gulliver's Travels.
In 2010 he returned to his Street connections when he directed the fiftieth anniversary drama The Road to Coronation Street in which his wife Phoebe Nicholls played Doris Simpson, Tony Warren's mother.
Episodes directed by Charles Sturridge[]
1978 (15 episodes)
- Episode 1788 (6th March 1978)
- Episode 1794 (27th March 1978)
- Episode 1795 (29th March 1978)
- Episode 1800 (17th April 1978)
- Episode 1801 (19th April 1978)
- Episode 1806 (8th May 1978)
- Episode 1807 (10th May 1978)
- Episode 1812 (29th May 1978)
- Episode 1813 (31st May 1978)
- Episode 1820 (26th June 1978)
- Episode 1821 (28th June 1978)
- Episode 1828 (24th July 1978)
- Episode 1829 (26th July 1978)
- Episode 1836 (21st August 1978)
- Episode 1837 (23rd August 1978)