Ettinger Brothers Productions is extremely fortunate to have a close working relationship with BAFTA Award winner Sandy Johnson, who is one of the most outstanding, talented and prolific television directors of our time.

His record embraces numerous top drama series which are house-hold names starring many of our leading actors such as Rob Brydon, Rebecca Front, Tamsin Greig, Peter Kay, Stephen Mangan, Pete Postlethwaite and Alison Steadman. These series include: Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Jonathan Creek, Benidorm, and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

His BAFTA Awards are for Best Drama Series 1998 for Jonathan Creek, starring Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin; and for Harry & Paul, starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, in 2009 and 2011.

Sandy is attached to two Ettinger Brothers Productions projects, both alongside writer and lawyer Adrian Laing. We are delighted to announce that The Divided Self will be one of Sandy’s first major cinema film. This is a road movie about the celebrated 1960s counter-culture psychiatrist RD Laing, based on Adrian Laing’s biography of his father RD Laing: A Life. Sandy and Adrian are also co-writers on a TV series based on Adrian’s novel Kosmos, which imagines the legendary Arthurian wizard Merlin reappearing in London.

It was probably in the stars that Sandy would be predestined for a career in the entertainment industry when as a boy he met many theatrical luminaries staying at his parents’ hotel near Loch Lomond, Scotland, including Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Richard Todd and Hollywood stars Tyrone Power and Betty Hutton.
In contrast to his directing career, his debut on the other side of the camera was as one of the Knights of Ni in Monty Python and the Holy Grail was back in 1975.