Julie Samuel

JULIE SAMUEL – PRODUCER a child, Julie attended the Italia Conti Stage School, making her professional acting debut at the age of twelve when she appeared on stage at the Victoria Palace Theatre. From the age of seventeen she appeared in countless films, television series and other programmes. After marrying the renowned First Assistant Film Director, Derek Cracknell, and later bringing up their daughter (pop singer Sarah Cracknell), Julie decided to resume her acting career. She went on to appear in over one hundred television shows playing many leading roles. Among the television plays in which Julie starred were Love Story (opposite Malcolm McDowell), The Four Ages of Women (with Ray Brooks), With the Cherry Blossom the Dawn (with John Carson) and three Armchair Theatre productions. Television roles also included the part of Dawn in the series Honey Lane. Other notable performances were in The Rag Trade, Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars and Coronation Street. Her film career included roles in The Long Ships, Dentist on the Job, The Seven Deadly Sins, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, Jigsaw, Deadline and the leading role opposite Gerry Marsden in Ferry Cross the Mersey. Julie crossed over into Music Management in 1983, managing daughter Sarah, lead singer with the band St. Etienne, teenage pop duo Crush, Jayni Hoy and Donna Air, Cola Boy (Janey Lee Grace) and Rock Band Mexico 70, with 5 top 20 hits including number 1 all over Europe “ 7 Ways to Love” .

She joined Wild Thyme Productions in 1999 as project manager and became Associate Producer on several productions. These included Moses! (new musical), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (tour to Germany), Romeo and Juliet (UK and German tour) an all-female adaptation of Hamlet, all-male adaptation of The Comedy of Errors and The Merry Wives of Windsor. She also produced 4 charity concerts for Thames Hospicecare two opera concerts at St Georges Chapel Windsor Castle, and School Hall at Eton College, Plus Rock With Laughter at the theatre Royal Windsor, and a jazz supper at the Saville Court Hotel In 2012 she produced the new musical, A Bowl of Cherries, at the Charing Cross theatre which was nominated for an Off-West End. Is now associate producer on a new Comedy Play Happy Warriors, to be staged in spring 2018. Julie has been writing scripts and plays since she was at drama school and hopes one day to have her stories appears on TV or Film.