Award-winning North East film and TV director Geoff Wonfor, who worked with many of the biggest names in music, has died at the age of 73.
Geoff, who grew up in Newcastle’s west end and started work for Tyne Tees Television at the age of 15, was known for his work on The Tube and the Beatles Anthology series, as well as directing the video for the first Band Aid single in 1984, and then its 20th anniversary edition in 2004.
Tributes have been paid to him from musicians and stars from around the world after a career that saw him win a Grammy and a Golden Rose of Montreux, two of the biggest prizes in the media. Though his career took him around the world, he always retained his base in the North East and was this year involved in a BBC documentary about Lindisfarne songwriter Alan Hull that was fronted by singer-songwriter Sam Fender.
