He also started to direct films which he continued to do through the sixties, including a screen version of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich with Tom Courtenay.
Han började också regissera filmer, vilket han fortsatte med att göra under 1960-talet, bland annat en filmatisering av Alexander Solsjenitsyns En dag i Ivan Denisovitjs liv med Tom Courtenay.