Max Morgan-Witts, Date of Birth
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British producer and director
Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1931
Profession: television director
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Max Morgan-Witts
- Max Morgan-Witts (born 27 September 1931) is a British producer, director and author of Canadian origin. Morgan-Witts was a Director/Producer at Granada TV which he joined on January 9, 1956.
- He directed television shows for Granada, including The Army Game, which was the UK's No.
- 1 television show during each of the approximately 50 episodes he directed.
- Afterwards Morgan-Witts directed 15 of the earliest episodes of Coronation Street (between July & August 1961 and January and April 1963), which followed The Army Game as Britain's top-rated TV show. After Granada TV, Morgan-Witts moved to BBC TV, as a producer and executive producer in the Science & Features Department.
- He was editor and executive producer of Tomorrow's World, a live, weekly, popular science programme.
- He was responsible for 14 one-hour episodes of The British Empire, a historical documentary series.
- It was filmed in 40 countries and at the time was the most expensive and ambitious documentary series the BBC had made.
- He was Director and Producer of many one-hour film documentaries made for peak time viewing on BBC One, most of which he wrote himself but for one of which he hired Gordon Thomas.
- This was the beginning of their writing partnership. Morgan-Witts wrote 10 non-fiction books with Thomas, four of which were made into feature films, including Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb, which was first a four-hour NBC special and then re-cut as a feature.
- Another was Voyage of the Damned, a highly rated feature film which is frequently repeated on TV worldwide. Morgan-Witts has been awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award and is a Knight of Mark Twain. Now retired, Morgan-Witts and his wife, Pauline, live in London.
- They have two children, Paul and Michele, and four grandchildren.
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