Giles Foster is a British director, mainly for television, who directed The Jim Henson Hour special installment "Monster Maker."
Foster directed for television in the 1970s, including the BBC Play for Today and similar anthologies. He directed several episodes of the Roald Dahl-hosted Tales of the Unexpected and two series of plays by Alan Bennett. He directed and co-wrote the 1985 BBC adaptation of Silas Marner and helmed two theatrical films, the cannibalism comedy Consuming Passions (with Jonathan Pryce and Vanessa Redgrave) and Innocent Victim (with Lauren Bacall). After directing the 1995 mystery miniseries Oliver's Travels (with Bill Paterson), Foster directed Coming Home (with Peter O'Toole), the first of six movie or miniseries versions of novels by Rosamunde Pilcher co-produced for German television airings as well,