David Darlow (film producer)

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David Walter Darlow (born January 1942) is a British film producer and director who mainly makes documentaries. He began working as a documentary producer in the 1970s and worked for the BBC. In 1972 he planned a BBC documentary about the vanishing of Royal Navy frogman Lionel Crabb, which led to a clash with the British Ministry of Defence and the BBC dropped the project. He also directed documentaries such as The Sword of Islam (1987) and the TV movie Coded Hostile (1989).

In 1988 he co-founded Darlow Smithson Productions with John Smithson. In June 2002 Smithson bought out Darlow’s 50% stake, and Darlow left the company a month later. He won a News & Documentary Emmy Award in 2000 for Decoding Nazi Secrets, part of the Nova series, in the category Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story – Programs. The previous year he was nominated for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for an episode of Survival in the Sky. He has worked as a producer, executive producer and director.