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name: "Mark Shivas"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mark-shivas"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "24 April 1938"
died: "11 October 2008"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 81
updated: "2026-09-16T21:21:05.089341+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."
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# Mark Shivas

Producer. Born 24 April 1938 in Banstead, Surrey, England, UK. Died 11 October 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 24 April 1938, Banstead, Surrey, England, UK
- **Died:** 11 October 2008
- **Active:** 1988–1993

## Biography

Mark Shivas was a British television and film producer. He began his career as a film critic and assistant editor at Movie magazine before joining Granada Television in 1964. He moved to the BBC as a drama producer in 1969 and later served as head of drama from 1988 to 1993 and head of films from 1993 to 1997.

Shivas produced *The Storyteller* (1988) and Alan Bennett’s *Talking Heads* (1988). His other credits include *The Six Wives of Henry VIII* (1970), *A Private Function* (1984), *The Witches* (1990) and executive producer roles on films such as *Truly Madly Deeply* (1991), *Priest* (1995) and *Jude* (1996). He established Perpetual Motion Pictures in 1997 and later Headline Pictures. Shivas won three BAFTA awards and two Emmys.

*Sources: imdb.com, telegraph.co.uk, thetimes.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Snapper* (1993), Fi1m 82, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-snapper.md)
- *Truly Madly Deeply* (1991), Fi1m 80, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/truly-madly-deeply.md)
- *The Storyteller* (1988), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-storyteller.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Talking Heads* (1988), Producer

## Also known for

- *The Witches* (1990), Producer
- *Priest* (1995), Executive Producer
- *Jude* (1996), Executive Producer
- *The Claim* (2000), Executive Producer
- *I.D.* (1995), Executive Producer
- *Hideous Kinky* (1999), Executive Producer
- *Enchanted April* (1991), Executive Producer
- *The Van* (1996), Executive Producer

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