Biography
Mark Shivas (24 April 1938 – 11 October 2008) was a British television producer, film producer and executive.
Shivas was born in Banstead in Surrey. His father was an English teacher; his mother was a librarian. He attended Whitgift School in Croydon and read law at Merton College, Oxford. Shivas wrote for the student magazine Oxford Opinions. After abandoning a legal career, he co-founded the magazine Movie (1961–64) which used the French publication Cahiers du Cinéma as its model,. He was assistant editor (1962–64), and also contributed interviews and articles to The New York Times.He began his television career at Granada Television in 1964 as an assistant to the head of the story department and later worked on the company's Cinema series as a producer and presenter. In 1969 he joined the BBC's drama department, and became one of the corporation's most successful and prolific producers. The costume drama The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), was nominated for three Emmy Awards in 1972. Dennis Potter's Casanova (1971) was another success.Other productions he oversaw included the anthology series Black and Blue (1973), which included the play Secrets by Michael Palin and Terry Jones. Critics disliked Shivas's production of The Borgias (1981) for the BBC; it suffered in comparison with the contemporary Brideshead Revisited on ITV.Shivas was head of drama at the BBC from 1988 to 1993; he then moved to the BBC Films, and was executive producer of twenty films. In later years, he returned to producing as a freelancer. Some of his most noted later productions included the second series of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologues in 1998 and the 2003 espionage drama Cambridge Spies.
Filmography
all 59
Producer 57
Movies 50
TV Shows 9
self 2
Mega Zoo (2020)
Cambridge Spies (2003)
Alan Clarke: His Own Man (2000)
Hideous Kinky (1998)
The Revengers' Comedies (1998)
I Went Down (1997)
The Designated Mourner (1997)
The Van (1996)
Two Deaths (1996)
Small Faces (1996)
Jude (1996)
I.D. (1995)
Priest (1995)
A Man of No Importance (1994)
Captives (1994)
Great Moments in Aviation (1994)
Genghis Cohn (1994)
The Hawk (1993)
The Snapper (1993)
The Trial (1993)
Maria's Child (1993)
The Long Roads (1993)
The Railway Station Man (1992)
Memento Mori (1992)
Enchanted April (1991)
Truly Madly Deeply (1991)
The Witches (1990)
The Storyteller (1988)
Talking Heads (1988)
A Private Function (1984)
Godard: History: Passion (1983)
Moonlighting (1982)
The Borgias (1981)
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
Richard's Things (1980)
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1979)
On Giant's Shoulders (1979)
Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk (1979)
She Fell Among Thieves (1978)
Professional Foul (1977)
Rogue Male (1976)
The Glittering Prizes (1976)
84 Charing Cross Road (1975)
Diane (1975)
The Evacuees (1975)
Funny Farm (1975)
The Saliva Milkshake (1975)
Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery (1974)
Private Practice (1973)
Secrets (1973)
Man Above Men (1973)
Horatio Bottomley (1972)
The Edwardians (1972)
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)
To Encourage the Others (1972)
Horace (1972)
The Tragedy of King Richard II (1970)
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970)
Peter Pan in Scarlet
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GenderMale
Birthday1938-04-24
Deathday2008-10-11 (70 years old)
Birth PlaceBanstead, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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