Prolific primetime television director Gabrielle Beaumont dies at 80: Emmy nominee ‘passes away peacefully at home’ in Mallorca
Gabrielle Beaumont died at her home in Mallorca on October 8
His brother, producer Christopher Toyne, announced the news on Wednesday.
The Emmy nominee has worked on such films as M*A*S*H, The Waltons, Hill Street Blues and Dynasty in a Hollywood career that spanned five decades.
She became the first woman to direct Star Trek in 1989, working on The Next Generation episode Booby Trap.
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British director Gabrielle Beaumont has died at the age of 80.
The Emmy nominee has worked on such films as M*A*S*H, The Waltons, Hill Street Blues and Dynasty in a Hollywood career that spanned five decades.
He died peacefully at his home in Fornalutx, on the Spanish island of Majorca, on October 8, his brother, producer-director Christopher Toyne, announced Wednesday.
Farewell: British director Gabrielle Beaumont has died at the age of 80, her brother, producer-director Christopher Toyne, announced Wednesday.
Gabrielle worked on a host of primetime television projects, including three Star Trek series, Miami Vice, Cagney & Lacey, Law & Order, and LA Law.
She became the first woman to direct Star Trek in 1989, working on The Next Generation episode Booby Trap.
He has also directed Knots Landing, The Dukes of Hazzard, Doogie Howser, MD and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, among many others.
RIP: He died peacefully at his home in Fornalutx on the Spanish island of Mallorca on October 8 (pictured in 1983)
After his UK-made horror film The Godsend was released in the United States in 1980, he traveled to Hollywood looking for work with two cans of his film when he met film producer Aaron Spelling.
However, he didn’t see her movie and asked, “Can you direct?”, to which she replied, “Damn yeah!”, and that night she was on a flight to work on a 1980 episode of Vega$ from A.B.C. , according to the hollywood reporter.
Aaron cast Gabrielle on numerous other occasions, and she asked Dynasty bosses to cast her friend Joan Collins in the role of Alexis Colby.
Hit: The Emmy nominee worked on the likes of M*A*S*H, The Waltons, Hill Street Blues and Dynasty in a Hollywood career that spanned five decades (pictured in 1983)
Producer Aaron has also signed her to Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, The Colbys, Hart to Hart, and 7th Heaven.
Gabrielle was born in London on April 7, 1942 to her mother, actress Diana Beaumont, and her father, stuntman Gabriel Toyne.
She trained at the BBC and became a film editor before working as an assistant director and production manager, going on to produce the horror films The Johnstown Monster and The Corpse, both released in 1971.
Beaumont then directed documentaries and dramas for the BBC, before working on 1981’s Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story and 1998’s Diana: A Tribute to the People’s Princess, among others.
She was married to actor Olaf Pooley and cinematographer Michael J. Davis.
Looking Back: Gabrielle was born in London on April 7, 1942 to her mother, actress Diana Beaumont, and father, stuntman Gabriel Toyne (pictured in 1983)