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Alan Shallcross

1932 – 2010

British television producer

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Lived 1932 – 2010 (aged 78). Alan Shallcross was a British television producer and producer.

Alan Shallcross (8 June 1932 in Heswall, Cheshire (now Merseyside) – 22 December 2010) was a British television producer

Early life He was born in Thelwall and attended Calday Grange Grammar School.

He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where his contemporaries were Alan Bennett and Russell Harty,

Career He joined BBC Television initially working as a programme planner. Shifting to programme production he came to know the producer Cedric Messina, responsible for adaptations of classic plays, and worked with him on such anthology series as Play of the Month. Under Messina, Shallcross worked as script editor on the first twelve productions in the BBC Television Shakespeare cycle. One of his last productions was a serial adaptation of the Oswald Wynd novel The Ginger Tree (1989) co-produced by the BBC, Japanese broadcaster NHK and WGBH Boston from the novel of the same name. Alan Shallcross retired in the late 1990s, moving to Settle in Yorkshire.

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Who was Alan Shallcross?

British television producer (1932–2010)

When was Alan Shallcross born?

Alan Shallcross was born on 8 June 1932.

When did Alan Shallcross die?

Alan Shallcross died on 22 December 2010.

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Alan Shallcross was a television producer and producer.

What nationality was Alan Shallcross?

Alan Shallcross was British.

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· Wikipedia: Alan Shallcross

· Wikidata: Q4707743

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