Dallas Bower, British TV pioneer, 92

["Deathwatch Central" <cdw@slick.org>]

LONDON (AP) - Dallas Bower, a pioneer television producer who also worked in
early radio and cinema, has died. He was 92.

Bower died at his London home on Monday, his family said.

Bower began sound recording in radio when broadcasting was a novelty, moved
to cinema and
then on to television in time to become the first producer/director of drama
and opera for
the British Broadcasting Corp.

He also directed feature films and documentaries, and was associate producer
of Laurence
Olivier's ``Henry V'' in 1944.

Born and educated in London, one of Bower's first jobs was to record the
soundtrack for
Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 film ``Blackmail'' for British International
Pictures. That year
he also recorded the first all-talking British film, ``Under the Greenwood
Tree.''

With extensive film experience, Bower was appointed to the BBC Television
Service in 1936
and directed many plays, ballets and operas for the network. During World
War II, he made
propaganda films as an executive producer in the government's Ministry of
Information.

After resigning from the BBC to make ``Henry V,'' he worked in more films,
directing a
successful musical version of ``Alice in Wonderland'' in 1951. He also
produced the first
80 commercials for the fledgling Independent Television Network in Britain,
12 of which he
directed.

A funeral service will be held Oct. 28 in London.


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