Biography

 Samuel Clemens trained at the Drama Centre London and is an award-winning actor and director, who has been acting for over twenty years and directing audio dramas for over twelve years, being a regular actor and director for Big Finish Productions. He has cast, directed, produced and post supervised numerous productions of ‘Doctor Who - BBC’, ‘The Avengers’, ‘Callan’, ‘Missy’, ‘Gallifrey’, ‘Shilling & Sixpence Investigate’ and many more.  Samuel has written and directed twelve short films, winning awards all over the world for his horror short ‘Surgery’. He has directed critically acclaimed fringe shows and a number one UK stage tour (Rose Theatre Kingston, Swansea Grand, Eastbourne, Yvonne Arnaud, Waterloo East Theatre) and commercials for JD Sports, Shell and Space NK.  Samuel has directed world-class talents such as Sir Roger Moore, Ben Miles, Sylvester McCoy, Alex Kingston, Frank Skinner, Rita Ora, Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley, Rufus Hound, David Warner, Celia Imrie, Youssef Kerkour, Sophie Aldred, Ian McNiece, Olivia Poulet, Stephen Wight, Jade Anouka, Mimi Ndwendi, Michelle Gomez and Peter Davidson

Credits

Waterhouse, The 1 episode View
Series   Role Year
Series 1, Episode 1   Director 2023
Surgery 1 episode View
Series   Role Year
-   Director 2015

Other Credits

JD Sports 'Wonderland' Commercial View
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B-Unit Director of JD Sports Christmas Commercial, JDWonderland. Featuring Rita Ora, Anthony Joshua, Mabel, Maya, WizKid, Maya Jama, Aitch, Virgil Van Dijk, Dapper and many more. 2020
Shell NXPlorers Online Branding View
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Director for Starstruck Media. The Shell NXplorers programme, from students & teachers perspectives. NXplorers (www.nxplorers.com) is Shell's global flagship Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) programme which seeks to empower and equip young people with the tools and skills to embrace the complexity of real-world issues. 2019
Dress Rehearsal Short Film View
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Writer/Director. 'Sometimes the only thing that stands in the way of the dream is the dreamer'. Bella, Lionel, Kit and Steph are 'The Overtones'. An operatic troupe, performing their show above a London pub. The dressing room is rife with tension and talent but the show must go on. Meanwhile, on the streets of London, Micky, a homeless man must battle his way through an unbearable evening, only to discover 'The Overtones' are playing and a once special someone is performing. What will happen when their paths inevitably collide? Featuring music from 'La Traviata, Carmen, The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro & The Mikado'. 2015
Say No Short Film View
Description Year
Director and writer in collaboration with the Rose Theatre Kingston. Schoolgirl Rossella has just split up with her boyfriend and is travelling to school with a handbag full of guns. Her ex has met a new girl and passions are running high. What does Rossella intend to do? 2017
'The Avengers' Season 5 'Extras' Optimum Releasing DVD/Blu-Ray Extras View
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Intros from writer/producer Brian Clemens OBE for episodes from season 5 of 'The Avengers' for Optimum Releasing 2012
The Lighter Short Film View
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Writer/Director. Starring Sir Roger Moore, Stephen Wight, Youssef Kerkour & Sarah Armstrong. Ricardo is out on the town with the reticent George to meet some girls. Whilst at the bar and dropping some change on the floor he discovers a lighter. Trying it and igniting it, suddenly a beautiful girl walks up to the bar and a rich voice-over takes them on a romantic montage through time. Will they be a match or is it just his imagination? 2011
Space NK - Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley Online Branding View
Description Year
Director for Interesting Content. 'Hourglass lipstick' Instagram and online branding for Space UK, starring Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley. 2020
Space NK - Kate Sommerville Online Branding View
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Director for Interesting Content. Instagram and online branding for Kate Sommerville products starring Kate Sommerville for Space NK. 2019
Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter Re-union Featurette DVD/Blu-Ray Featurette View
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Director of ‘Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter’ Reunion Featurette for Hammer Horror/Shock Entertainment. Featuring the cast and crew meeting for the first time in thirty years to watch a screening at the Ciné Lumière Cinema in Kensington and discuss making the film. 2011
Doctor Who - The Mags Trilogy Audio Drama View
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Director. Starring Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor, and Jessica Martin as Mags, these three stories, 'Monsters of Gokroth, Moons of Vulpana & An Alien Werewolf in London' bring these two characters back again after thirty years fort three new adventures. Co-starring Sophie Aldred as Ace, Gideon Turner, Victoria Yeates, Nimmy March, Peter Bankole, Sean Knopp, Irfan Shamji & Lara Lemon for Big Finish Productions. 2018
Doctor Who - The Psychic Circus Audio Drama View
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Director. Prequel & Sequel to TV Episodes 'The Greatest Show In The Galaxy'. When a junk mail robot invades the TARDIS, the Doctor gets led down an unnervingly familiar path. Meanwhile, space beatniks Kingpin and Juniper Berry just want to hitch rides and busk – until a greater purpose calls. The Doctor’s past and Kingpin’s future are entangled by malevolent forces. The Psychic Circus is just beginning: it may lack clowns, but it already has a Master... Starring Sylvester McCoy, James Dreyfus, Ian Reddington, Chris Jury, Andrew Spooner, Anna Leong-Brophy & Sioned Jones. 2019
Doctor Who - Subterfuge Audio Drama View
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Director. London, 1945. Winston Churchill campaigns for re-election. His new strategic adviser assures him that Britain has a bright future under his continued leadership. It’s a vote he can’t possibly lose. But the Doctor knows that he must. The Monk is meddling, altering history for his own selfish ends. With spies and aliens in the mix, Winston realises victory may not be so simple. But at least he can trust his old friend... can’t he? Starring Sylvester McCoy as The Doctor, Rufus Hound as The Meddling Monk and Ian McNiece as Churchill. Also featuring Mimi Ndiweni, Brian Capron, Philip Labey, Jonathan Forbes & James Joyce for Big Finish Productions. 2019
Doctor Who - The Grey Man Of The Mountain Audio Drama View
Description Year
Director. Something haunts the peak of Ben MacDui. Something with heavy footsteps, striking terror in the hearts of those who sense it. With climbers going missing, retired Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart visits Scotland to investigate. But when some old friends join his ascent, he worries that they will make things even more dangerous. As the snows blow in, and mists surround them, the Doctor, Ace and the Brigadier will face the Grey Man of the Mountain. Starring Sylvester McCoy as The Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace and Jon Culshaw as The Brigadier. Also featuring Youssef Kerkour, Lucie Goldie, Vivien Reid & Guy Adams for Big Finish Productions. 2020
Shilling & Sixpence Investigate Audio Drama View
Description Year
Director of Shilling & Sixpence Investigate. Headmistress (Lavinia Sixpence) and English schoolmaster (Desmund Shilling) team up to investigate a series of murders in a sometimes quirky, sometimes dark world where nobody is quite whom they seem in Cornwall 1939. With a stellar cast that includes Celia Imrie, David Warner, Louise Jameson and Matthew Waterhouse for Big Finish Productions. 2018
Doctor Who - The Flying Dutchman/Displaced Audio Drama View
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Director. The Flying Dutchman - The Doctor, Ace and Hex find themselves on a seemingly deserted boat in the middle of the ocean. Eventually locating the crew, they discover that the men have been in hiding to avoid the attack of the legendary ghost ship The Flying Dutchman that they’ve recently glimpsed approaching through the fog. But ghosts don’t exist. Do they? Displaced - The Doctor, Ace and Hex arrive inside a mystery. An ordinary house where something extraordinary is happening. There are no occupants, the doors are sealed, and someone - or something - is attempting to communicate. And when the TARDIS locks them out, Ace and Hex suspect the Doctor of his usual tricks. But the truth is even more disturbing. Starring Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Philip Olivier, Stephen Wight, Alexander Bean, Carly Day, Nicholas Khan, Nigel Fairs & Patience Tomlinson for Big Finish Productions. 2020
The Avengers - Steed & Mrs Peel Boxset 3 Audio Drama View
Description Year
Director. Four new episodes based on the comic strip of 'Steed & Mrs Peel'. Starring Julian Wadham, Olivia Poulet as DSteed & Mrs Peel. Featuring Nicholas Asbury, Jeany Spark, Jessica Martin, Stephen Wight, Dan Starkey, Nigel Fairs, daniel Hawksford, Leo Starr,m Corinne Wicks, Jake Wardle, Paul Putner, Eve Webster, Rosie Jones & Marek Oravec for Big Finish Productions. 2020
Missy Audio Drama View
Description Year
Director Missy... alone, unleashed and unfettered. What does she get up to when the Doctor isn’t around? Now she has what she wants, Missy needs someone to show off to. But her temporal mischief attracts the wrong kind of attention. Infuriating children, a vacationing Sontaran and her own worst intentions will get in her way. And a Meddling Monk, out for revenge. Starring Michelle Gomez as Missy, Rufus Hound as The Meddling Monk, Gina Mckee as The Lumiat and Dan Starky as Strax. Also featuring Ajjaz Awad, John Banks, Oliver Clement, Ben Fox, Helen Goldwyn, Christopher Hatherall, Alex Hope, Matthew Jacobs-Morgan, Bonnie Kingston, Glen McCready, Cameron Percival, Philip Pope, Ony Uhiara, Eve Webster, Robert Whitelock. 2020
Callan Season 2 Audio Drama View
Description Year
Director. Callan adventures, adapted from series creator James Mitchell’s Sunday Express Short Stories by his son Peter Mitchell. David Callan works for The Section, a top-secret counter-espionage organisation. He’s a killer, a trained assassin, and the best at what he does. But that doesn’t mean he has to like it. With the aid of the burglar Lonely; fellow operative Meres; and Section secretary Liz, Callan fulfils the orders of departmental head Hunter and finds himself in very murky waters. Murder, betrayal and model soldiers. It’s all in a day’s work for Callan. Starring Ben Miles as Callan, Frank Skinner as Lonely, Jane Slavin as Liz and Nicholas Briggs as Hunter. Also featuring Jade Anouka, Beth Chalmers, Imogen Church, Nicholas Day, Mark Elstob, Michael Jibson, Lara Lemon, Jason Nwoga, Jamie Parker, Emily Raymond, and Tam Williams for Big Finish Productions. 2020
Strictly Murder Stage UK Tour View
Description Year
Producer/Director for Hello World Productions Ltd. Strictly Murder by Brian Clemens Provence. April 1939. English couple, Peter and Suzy, are living in idyllic isolation; far, it seems from the rumblings of the oncoming war. Their peace is suddenly shattered by a stranger from Peter’s past who unearths secrets from a buried and hidden life, which throws Suzy’s world into turmoil. In a world where the Third Reich is emerging as a dangerous regime, deceit, lies and subterfuge make this fast-paced thriller a dark and nail-biting rollercoaster. Starring Brian Capron, Corrinne Wicks, Gary Turner, Lara Lemon and Andrew Fettes. 2017
Beacons Stage View
Description Year
Director for Phil & Ben Productions in association with Eastbourne Theatres. Beacons by Tabitha Mortiboy Julie sells ice cream on the cliffs at Beachy Head and searches for love online. Her friend Bernard walks the clifftops and can’t seem to settle. When sixteen-year-old Skye arrives for the summer and decides to stay, the lives of all three become unexpectedly entwined. But when memory takes hold, will their buried fears force them apart? Tabitha Mortiboy’s magical new play tells of love, loss and midnight ice cream sundaes under the starlit skies of the South Downs. Starring Moira Brooker, Stephen Pinder & Polly Jordan. 2020
You Thought I Was Dead Didn't You? Stage View
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Director. You Thought I Was Dead Didn't You? By Stephen Wyatt British screen legend Patricia Meadows is ready, to tell the truth about her life... Or is she? One-woman show starring Jessica Martin. 2019
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