Hugh Greene and later with Lord Hill (played by Ron Cook) when he was Director General. Hugh Greene Sir Hugh Carleton Greene (15 November 1910 – 19 February 1987) was a British journalist and television executive. He was Director-General of the BBC from 1960 to 1969, and is generally credited with modernising an organisation that had fallen behind in the wake of the launch of ITV in 1955. He was the brother of Graham Greene, the English novelist. Greene was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, one of the four sons and two daughters of Charles Henry Greene, Headmaster of Berkhamsted School. His brothers
Graham Greene last two entertainments, "Loser Takes All" and "Our Man in Havana", than to any of the novels. Greene, they speculated, seemed to have dropped the category of entertainment. This was soon confirmed. In the "Collected Edition" of Greene's works published in 22 volumes between 1970 and 1982, the distinction between novels and entertainments is no longer maintained. All are novels. Greene was one of the more "cinematic" of twentieth-century writers; most of his novels and many of his plays and short stories have been . The Internet Movie Database lists 66 titles between 1934 and 2010 based on Greene material.