Sir Ridley Scott Biography

Ridley Scott was born in South Shields, Tyne & Wear on November 30, 1937. (then County Durham). His father was a Royal Engineers officer, and the family accompanied him as his job took him all throughout the United Kingdom and Europe before returning to Teesside. Scott wanted to join the Royal Army (his elder brother Frank had already joined the Merchant Navy), but his father encouraged him to pursue his artistic talents instead, so he attended West Hartlepool College of Art and then the Royal College of Art in London, where he helped establish the film department. In 1962, he began working for the BBC as a trainee set designer on numerous high-profile programmes. While there, he joined a trainee director's course and directed his first episode of the acclaimed BBC series Z Cars Error of Judgement. More TV employment followed, until he became dissatisfied with the BBC's meager financial returns and moved into advertising. With his younger brother Tony Scott he formed the advertising production company RSA (Ridley Scott Associates) in 1967 and spent the next 10 years making some of the best known and best loved TV adverts ever shown on British television including a series of ads for Hovis bread set to the music of Dvorak's New World Symphony which are still talked about today ('e were a great baker were our dad.)

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