Biography
Cecil McGivern was a British writer and broadcasting executive. He was born on 22 May 1907 in Newcastle upon Tyne and educated at St Cuthbert's Grammar School and Durham University. After early work in BBC radio, including producing wartime documentary features, he joined the Rank Organisation as a screenwriter in 1945.
McGivern received a screen credit for the adaptation of Great Expectations (1946), directed by David Lean, alongside David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan and Kay Walsh. He also co-wrote the screenplay for Blanche Fury (1948). He returned to the BBC in 1947 and served as Controller of BBC Television from 1950 to 1957. McGivern died on 30 January 1963 in Buckinghamshire.
