Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Max_Morgan-Witts> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 56 of
56
with 100 triples per page.
- Max_Morgan-Witts abstract "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. He directed television shows for Granada, including: 50 episodes of The Army Game, at the time Britain's highest-rated television programme. Afterwards Morgan-Witts directed 15 of the earliest episodes of Coronation Street, which followed The Army Game as Britain's top-rated TV show.After Granada TV, Morgan-Witts moved to BBC TV, where he was responsible for documentary programmes. These included 14 one-hour episodes of the 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 editor and executive producer of Tomorrow's World, a live, weekly, popular science programme. 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 adult children, Paul and Michele, and four grandchildren.His books are: The Day their World Ended by Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts, a factual novel about the eruption of Mount Pelée in 1902 and the basis for the 1980 movie When Time Ran Out starring Paul Newman)The San Francisco EarthquakeShipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle Voyage of the DamnedGuernica: The Crucible of World War IIRuin from the Air: The Enola Gay's Atomic Mission to HiroshimaThe Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929Anatomy of an epidemicPontiffAverting Armageddon: Papal Policies in the Pursuit of Peace".
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageExternalLink books1970s.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageExternalLink the-great-san-francisco-earthquake-of-1906.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageExternalLink Edgar-Award-Best-Fact-Crime.html.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageExternalLink morganwitts.html.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageExternalLink tt0080689.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageExternalLink Max-Morgan-Witts.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageID "4619980".
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageLength "3290".
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageOutDegree "20".
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageRevisionID "707351285".
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink BBC_One.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink BBC_Television.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink Category:1931_births.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink Category:British_male_writers.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink Category:British_non-fiction_writers.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink Category:British_television_directors.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink Category:Edgar_Award_winners.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink Category:Living_people.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink Coronation_Street.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink Edgar_Award.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink Gordon_Thomas_(author).
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink ITV_Granada.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink Mount_Pelée.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink NBC.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink The_Army_Game.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink Tomorrows_World.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink United_Kingdom.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink Voyage_of_the_Damned.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLink When_Time_Ran_Out.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLinkText "Max Morgan Witts".
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLinkText "Max Morgan-Witts".
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageWikiLinkText "Morgan-Witts, Max".
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:BLP_IMDb_only.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:IMDb_name.
- Max_Morgan-Witts subject Category:1931_births.
- Max_Morgan-Witts subject Category:British_male_writers.
- Max_Morgan-Witts subject Category:British_non-fiction_writers.
- Max_Morgan-Witts subject Category:British_television_directors.
- Max_Morgan-Witts subject Category:Edgar_Award_winners.
- Max_Morgan-Witts subject Category:Living_people.
- Max_Morgan-Witts hypernym Producer.
- Max_Morgan-Witts type List.
- Max_Morgan-Witts type Person.
- Max_Morgan-Witts type Writer.
- Max_Morgan-Witts type Director.
- Max_Morgan-Witts type List.
- Max_Morgan-Witts type Writer.
- Max_Morgan-Witts type Thing.
- Max_Morgan-Witts comment "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. He directed television shows for Granada, including: 50 episodes of The Army Game, at the time Britain's highest-rated television programme.".
- Max_Morgan-Witts label "Max Morgan-Witts".
- Max_Morgan-Witts sameAs Q16199243.
- Max_Morgan-Witts sameAs m.0cc_5c.
- Max_Morgan-Witts sameAs Q16199243.
- Max_Morgan-Witts wasDerivedFrom Max_Morgan-Witts?oldid=707351285.
- Max_Morgan-Witts isPrimaryTopicOf Max_Morgan-Witts.