James Ferman

James Alan Ferman (11 April 1930 – 24 December 2002) was an American-British television and theatre director. While serving in the US Air Force, Ferman was stationed in Suffolk, England. He studied at Cambridge and went onto become a TV and film director. In 1975, he became the Secretary (later, the Director) of the British Board of Film Classification. He served in that role from 1975 to 1999 overseeing the classification of British films for more than 20 years and was variously criticised as being too harsh or too lenient.