Maurice Cowan

Maurice Cowan (1891–1974) was a British writer and producer. He produced the first films of Norman Wisdom. He disliked working with Wisdom so much on One Good Turn he vowed never to work with the comedian again.

He was editor of The Picture Goer when he came up with an idea for what became the film I Live in Grosvenor Square. He sent it to Herbert Wilcox would bought it.

Select credits A Yank in London (1945) aka I Live in Grosvenor Square - story A Voice in the Night (1946) aka Wanted for Murder - add dialogue Springtime (1946) aka Spring Song - story Meet Me at Dawn (1947) - dialogue Murder on Monday (1952) aka Home at Seven - producer Derby Day (1952) - producer Turn the Key Softly (1953) - producer, writer Trouble in Store (1953) - producer, writer One Good Turn (1955) - producer, writer Man of the Moment (1955) - story Babes in the Wood on Ice (1956) - book The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958) - producer Operation Amsterdam (1959) - producer The Men from Room 13 (1959–61) - research Watch It, Sailor! (1961) - producer The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) - series ideas