British television director/producer/actor.
Born in Godalming, Surrey (England), Alan Bromly was associated with Lindsay Hardy's (q.v.) 1960s' television thrillers The Sleeper (1964) and The Man in the Mirror (q.v., 1967). He began his career in the entertainment industry in the mid-1930s as an actor (and continued to appear spasmodically in minor television roles though until the early 1970s). In 1939 he became a radio commentator, while occasionally finding work as an actor in television dramas like The Queen's Husband (1946).
After securing acting roles in the BBC Sunday Night Theatre (1950), Little Women (1950-1951) and The Railway Children (1951) among others, Bromly turned to directing and producing. He directed Back to Methuselah (1952), Panarama (1953-54), and also an unknown number of episodes for Britain's longest-running soap Coronation Street (1960 -). His early television series in the dual producer/director roles include: Portrait of Alison (1955), My Friend Charles (1956), The Other Man (1956), A Time of Day (1957) and The Scarf (1959). His later credits include such series as: The World of Tim Frazer (1960), Melissa (1964), A Man Called Harry Brent (1965), A Game of Murder (1966), Bat Out of Hell (1966), The Big M (1967), Crown Court (1973-74, 1977), Crossroads (1978), Doctor Who (1974, 1979).
Bromly's producer (only) credits also include the series': Midshipman Barney (1951), The Government Inspector (1958), Little Women (1958), Contract to Kill (1965), The Mind of the Enemy (1965), Legend of Death (1965), An Enemy of the State (1965), Take a Pair of Private Eyes (1966), Breaking Point (1966), The Dark Number (1966), Witch Hunt (1967), Paul Temple (19670) and Out of the Unknown (1971).
