Bill Hays (director)

Bill Hays (15 March 1938 – 2 March 2006) was a British television director who is best remembered for the award-winning "Orde Wingate" and "Rock Follies", a BBC adaptation of the Ivan Turgenev play "A Month in the Country" (1985), "The Tale of Beatrix Potter" (1982), a biographical drama with Penelope Wilton in the lead, and the television version of the Alex Glasgow/Alan Plater musical play "Close the Coalhouse Door" (1969), a late entry in "The Wednesday Play" series now lost.
Hays also directed the second and third series of the LWT secret agent drama "Wish Me Luck " broadcast in 1989 and 1990. After he retired from directing, he ran a guesthouse, Chambre d'Hôtes Valentin, in central France, with his actress wife Catherine Schell. His health declined over the last few years of his life until his death in March 2006.