Gabrielle Beaumont Biography

British film and television director (1942–2022)

Gabrielle Beaumont (7 April 1942 – 8 October 2022) was a British film and television director.

Her directing credits range from Hill Street Blues to Star Trek: The Next Generation. She became the first woman to direct an episode of Star Trek, with the episode "Booby Trap". Beaumont lobbied to have Joan Collins cast as Alexis Colby in Dynasty.

Beaumont was best known for directing, writing and producing the television special Diana: A Tribute to the People's Princess. She directed a film version of Bernard Taylor's The Godsend.

Daphne du Maurier was her cousin.

Beaumont died at her home in Fornalutx on 8 October 2022, at the age of 80.

Selected filmography

Sources:

• Diana: A Tribute to the People's Princess
• Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus
• The Other Woman
• Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy
• Fatal Inheritance
• Riders
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• L.A. Law
• He's My Girl
• Hill Street Blues
• Gone Are the Dayes
• Secrets of a Mother and Daughter
• Dynasty
• Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story
• M*A*S*H
• The Waltons
• The Godsend

References

External links

• Gabrielle Beaumont at Memory Alpha
• Gabrielle Beaumont at IMDb