Sydney Newman

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Film & TV

Production · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sydney Cecil Newman, OC (April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. After his return to Canada in 1970, Newman was appointed Acting Director of the Broadcast Programs Branch for the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) and then head of the National Film…

Known for

• Innes Lloyd: The Producer — Self (archive footage)2025
• Verity Lambert: Drama Queen — (Archive Footage)2008
• Doctor Who: Origins — Self (archive footage)2006
• Creation of the Daleks — Himself (archive footage)2006
• The Magical Eye — Self1989
• Grierson — Self1973

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1955-10-20

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1

Total plays

58

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,908x

2. Frailty in Older Adults: Evidence for a Phenotype

   · 2001 · cited 20,856x

3. The Structure and Function of Complex Networks

   · 2003 · cited 13,992x

4. Community structure in social and biological networks

   · 2002 · cited 12,224x

5. Robust enumeration of cell subsets from tissue expression profiles

   · 2015 · cited 11,572x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Newman

Gender

male

Citizenship

Canada

Place of birth

Toronto

Place of death

Toronto

Occupation

director

Employer

BBC

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Image

Sydney Newman (Canadian Media Delegation to China).jpg

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