---
name: "Cecil McGivern"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/cecil-mcgivern"
fi1m_id: "cecil-mcgivern"
imdb_id: "nm0569414"
tmdb_id: 1153054
wikidata_id: "Q5056219"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "22 May 1907"
died: "30 January 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:24:15.284766+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Cecil McGivern

## Identity

Cecil McGivern

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/cecil-mcgivern
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** cecil-mcgivern
- **IMDb ID:** nm0569414
- **TMDB ID:** 1153054
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5056219
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_McGivern, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5056219, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569414/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1153054

Writer. Born 22 May 1907 in Newcastle upon Tyne. Died 30 January 1963.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 22 May 1907, Newcastle upon Tyne
- **Died:** 30 January 1963
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_McGivern, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5056219, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569414/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1153054

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Great Expectations*](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md) (84)

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## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Great Expectations* (1946), Fi1m 84, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Blanche Fury* (1948), Screenplay
- *Great Expectations* (1946), Screenplay — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md)

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