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name: "Margaret Matheson"
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wikidata_id: "Q76137529"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "30 June 1946"
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average_as: "producer"
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updated: "2026-10-01T22:40:58.089515+00:00"
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# Margaret Matheson

## Identity

Margaret Matheson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/margaret-matheson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** margaret-matheson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0558563
- **TMDB ID:** 991016
- **Wikidata ID:** Q76137529
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76137529, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0558563/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/991016

Producer. Born 30 June 1946.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 30 June 1946
- **Active:** 1994–2013
- **Also known as:** Margaret Helen Matheson
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76137529, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0558563/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/991016

## Biography

Margaret Matheson is a British film and television producer. Born on 30 June 1946, she began her career in BBC drama, producing episodes of *Play for Today* including *Abigail's Party* (1977) and *Scum* (1977). She later served as controller of drama at Central Television and as chief executive of Island World Productions.

Matheson founded Bard Entertainments in 1994. Her credits include producer on *Made in Britain* (1982), executive producer on *Sid and Nancy* (1986), and producer on the series *Cardiac Arrest* (1994). Later work encompasses *Skin* (2008), *Shell* (2012), *Iona* (2015) and *Katie Morag* (2013–2015). She was previously married to playwright David Hare.

*Sources: imdb.com, africultures.com, screenonline.org.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Shell* (2013), Fi1m 72, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/shell.md)

## Complete filmography (44)

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

- *Run* (2020), Producer
- *New Town Utopia* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Iona* (2015), Producer
- *The Fold* (2014), Executive Producer
- *Katie Morag* (2013), series, Producer
- *Shell* (2013), Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/shell.md)
- *Lore* (2012), Executive Producer
- *In the Dark Half* (2012), Producer
- *Hard Boiled Sweets* (2012), Executive Producer
- *Third Star* (2010), Executive Producer
- *Sleep Furiously* (2008), Producer
- *Nina's Heavenly Delights* (2006), Executive Producer
- *American Cousins* (2003), Producer
- *Revengers Tragedy* (2002), Producer
- *AKA* (2002), Executive Producer
- *Lost for Words* (1999), Executive Producer
- *Eve's Bayou* (1997), Co-Executive Producer
- *The Great Kandinsky* (1995), Executive Producer
- *Doggin' Around* (1994), Executive Producer
- *Murder in Mind* (1994), Executive Producer
- *Two Golden Balls* (1994), Producer
- *Cardiac Arrest* (1994), series, Producer
- *Wide-Eyed and Legless* (1993), Executive Producer
- *Sid and Nancy* (1986), Executive Producer
- *Made in Britain* (1983), Producer
- *R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only* (1983), Producer
- *Flying Into the Wind* (1983), Producer
- *Birth of a Nation* (1983), Producer
- *Tales Out of School* (1983), series, Producer
- *Muck and Brass* (1982), series, Producer
- *Who's Who* (1979), Producer
- *The Legion Hall Bombing* (1978), Producer
- *Stronger Than the Sun* (1978), Producer
- *The After Dinner Joke* (1978), Producer
- *Destiny* (1978), Producer
- *Nipper* (1977), Producer
- *Scum* (1977), Producer
- *Oy Vay Maria* (1977), Producer
- *Abigail's Party* (1977), Producer
- *Shooting the Chandelier* (1977), Producer
- *BBC2 Play of the Week* (1977), series, Producer
- *A Choice of Evils* (1977), Producer
- *Gotcha / Campion's Interview* (1977), Producer
- *It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet* (1976), Producer

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