Mark Shivas (Producer)
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Works
Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk
Television documentary about German-born American director Douglas Sirk.
Release Date1979-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Charactersd Self - Presenter
Film '72
The BBC's flagship cinema review TV program featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the program changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.
Release Date1971-11-16
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
British film-maker Alan Clarke was championed by the likes of Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Ray Winstone - Stephen Frears even called him the best. And yet Clarke only ever made 3 feature films. This documentary explores the life and career of an exceptional director - Alan Clarke.
Release Date2000-09-18
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.
Release Date2016-06-13
Charactersd Self
Godard: History: Passion
A 1983 film for Channel Four’s Visions, featuring interviews about the impact of Godard of British filmmakers and critics.
Release Date1983-05-11
Charactersd Self
Playhouse
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Release Date1974-03-13
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
BBC2 Play of the Week
An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
Release Date1977-09-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Edward II
The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.
Release Date1970-08-06
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count6
Genghis Cohn
In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is comfortably retired into the life of a highly respected police commissioner, and is investigating a series of murders when he encounters the ghost of Genghis Cohn. The haunting turns into a taunting, and before he knows it, Schatz is slowly driven mad as he is lured into a trap.
Release Date1993-11-09
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count4
Two Deaths
A tale of power, passion and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.
Release Date1996-06-14
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count8
Professional Foul
Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student is arrested by the Czech authorities for writing about individualist approaches to morality.
Release Date1977-09-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
The Claim
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
Release Date2000-12-29
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count107
The Witches
A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?
Release Date1990-05-25
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1335
The Storyteller
The Storyteller aided by his cynical dog, narrates classic folk tales, fables, and legends.
Release Date1988-05-15
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count9
Vote Count230
Century
Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.
Release Date1993-12-31
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count7
Rogue Male
In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
Release Date1976-09-22
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count20
The Snapper
Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.
Release Date1993-08-06
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count86
Flea Bites
The friendship of a young boy and an old Polish emigre as they struggle to re-create 'the smallest show on earth' - a flea circus
Release Date1992-01-26
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Moonlighting
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.
Release Date1982-09-26
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count67
Enchanted April
When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for a quiet holiday. Joining the ladies is Caroline Dester, a young socialite, and Mrs. Fisher, an older aristocrat. Liberated from their daily routines, the four women ease into life in rural Italy, and each finds herself transformed by the experience.
Release Date1991-11-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count73
Priest
The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation.
Release Date1995-03-24
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count143
The Borgias
A a serial in ten parts on the lives of one of the most intriguing families in history.
Release Date1981-10-14
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count10
Vote Count2
Truly Madly Deeply
Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be – hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.
Release Date1991-05-03
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count105
The Revengers' Comedies
After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell and Karen Knightly plot to avenge the people who drove them to suicide. Henry will ruin the life of the woman who married Karen's boyfriend, while Karen will work as a secretary for the man who took Henry's job. Whether revenge will be sweet – or bittersweet – is anyone's guess.
Release Date1998-06-09
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count21
Memento Mori
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
Release Date1992-04-19
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count5
Poet Game
Mercurial, hard-drinking poet Hugh Saunders (Sir Anthony Hopkins) awaits his fortieth birthday, trying to preserve his art and his marriage against the temptations of celebrity and addiction.
Release Date1972-03-14
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Captives
A beautiful young dentist working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate after the break-up of her marriage, and embarks upon an illicit affair with him, with terrible consequences for all.
Release Date1994-05-03
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count42
Richard's Things
Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical relationship.
Release Date1980-12-26
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count11
Private Practice
Why does Sylvia Payne, with her successful husband and luxurious home, get in such a flap about her daughter's schoolfriend coming to visit?
Release Date1973-11-22
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
I.D.
Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between 'job' and 'yob' becomes more unclear as time passes . . .
Release Date1995-05-05
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count98
The Three Hostages
Retired British solider Richard Hannay is recruited by British intelligence in an attempt to recover three hostages taken prisoner by a shadowy criminal organisation
Release Date1977-12-27
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Evacuees
The experiences of two young Jewish boys evacuated from Manchester to Blackpool during the Blitz.
Release Date1975-03-05
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count3
Painted Angels
The story centers on the life of a bordello in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. The whorehouse is run by pragmatic madam Annie Ryan and the film follows the life of several of her girls.
Release Date1998-07-21
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count5
Horatio Bottomley
Alan Clarke's standalone film first appeared as an episode of the BBC series "The Edwardians" and concerns notorious bon vivant, swindler, MP, public speaker, founder of the Financial Times and publisher of John Bull magazine, Horatio Bottomley.
Release Date1972-11-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Designated Mourner
Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story about their lives, mostly from Jack's point of view.
Release Date1997-05-23
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count6
Horace
Set in Yorkshire, diabetic Horace has learning disabilities and works in the back of a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy Gordon Blackett, who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary world.
Release Date1972-03-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count5
Jude
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.
Release Date1996-02-06
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count137
The Long Roads
An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform them of the news. During the journey, the couple rediscover their love for each other.
Release Date1993-01-31
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
The Edwardians
The Edwardians is an eight-part miniseries broadcast in 1972–73. An anthology, each 90-minute episode explores influential figure(s) of the Edwardian era: Charles Rolls and Henry Royce; Horatio Bottomley; E. Nesbit; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Robert Baden-Powell; Marie Lloyd; Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick; and David Lloyd George.
Release Date1972-11-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count8
Vote Count3
The Trial
Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.
Release Date1993-06-18
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count30
The Lost Language of Cranes
When a young gay man comes out of the closet, his friends support him, but when he comes out to his parents, he stirs up a wealth of hidden feelings and secrets in their relationship.
Release Date1992-02-09
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count22
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Series of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization of the trials and tribulations surrounding Henry and his wives. Keith Michell ties the episodes together with his dignified and magnetic performance as the mighty monarch.
Release Date1970-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count6
Vote Count13
Cambridge Spies
In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge students are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow.
Release Date2003-05-09
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count4
Vote Count19
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire. She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother, who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
Release Date1993-12-21
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count8
Man Above Men
Max Glanville, a judge whose attention wanders throughout a trial for criminal assault, makes an error in the sentence - which he has to correct. The judge sees himself as a protector of democracy, but his daughter, Susan, regards him as the greatest living argument for euthanasia.
Release Date1973-03-19
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Hideous Kinky
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.
Release Date1999-02-05
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count95
Censored Scenes from King Kong
A man believes that King Kong was censored for political reasons.
Release Date1973-11-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Railway Station Man
Northern Irishwoman Helen Cuffe (Julie Christie) is overwhelmed with sadness when her husband is killed by the Irish Republican Army. She and her teen son, Jack (Frank MacCusker), then move to a tiny town and start life anew. There, Helen meets a mysterious American man named Roger Hawthorne (Donald Sutherland), who is in the area to refurbish an old train station. A romance slowly blossoms between Roger and Helen, but Jack then gets involved with a violent political group, and tragedy looms.
Release Date1992-10-18
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count7
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced exile from political position during the 1920s and 30s. It was written and directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and Churchill was played by Robert Hardy. Hardy's brilliant performance as Churchill won critical acclaim and a BAFTA award in 1982. He reprised the role in The Sittaford Mystery, Bomber Harris and War and Remembrance and at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the end of World War II in 1995 when he quoted a number of Churchill's wartime speeches in character.
Release Date1981-09-06
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count8
Vote Count3
Soap Opera in Stockwell
A baby is snatched from outside a launderette. The manageress and customers try to work out who was responsible. Part of the Black and Blue series of TV plays.
Release Date1973-09-11
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Black and Blue
Black and Blue was a BBC TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 1973. The show consisted of six 50–60 minutes episodes, each a separate self-contained playlet. The only connection was the Black and Blue humour theme. The first episode was broadcast on 14 August 1973, with the finale on 18 September 1973. The first, Secrets, was wiped, only surviving thanks to a domestic videotape copy made from the master by producer Mark Shivas.
Release Date1973-08-14
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
Talking Heads
A series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by the acclaimed British playwright Alan Bennett.
Release Date1988-04-19
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count6
Vote Count6
The Van
In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy, Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well, but the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo behaves more like a typical boss.
Release Date1996-11-29
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count74
The Glittering Prizes
The Glittering Prizes is a British television drama about the changing lives of a group of Cambridge students, starting in 1952 and following them through to middle age in the 1970s. It was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1976.
Release Date1976-01-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count6
Vote Count2
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.
Release Date1972-07-13
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count19
A Private Function
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.
Release Date1984-11-09
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count63
A Man of No Importance
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
Release Date1994-12-24
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count19
Small Faces
Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story focuses on Lex, who begins a downward spiral after he accidentally shoots the leader of Bobby's gang. Lex's cockiness and immaturity unfortunately prevent him from understanding the effect his subsequent crimes will have on both himself, and on those around him.
Release Date1996-04-05
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count28
The Hawk
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always believed and begins to piece together the times and dates of her husband's frequent absences, her fears begin to take hold, and her sanity deteriorates.
Release Date1993-12-03
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count9
I Went Down
Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?
Release Date1997-10-03
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count26
Rust
A deadly virus threatens the population, but a vaccine has been developed. However, it has a devastating side-effect. All is not well in the family of the government's chief scientific adviser. But the mood at the vaccine manufacturer is more upbeat, at the prospect of a lucrative government contract.
Release Date1973-09-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Great Moments in Aviation
The film follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie Ayola), a young Caribbean aviator who falls in love with the forger Duncan Stewart (Jonathan Pryce) on her journey to England. Stewart is pursued by his nemesis Rex Goodyear (John Hurt), and the group are supported by Dr Angela Bead (Vanessa Redgrave) and Miss Gwendolyn Quim (Dorothy Tutin), retired missionaries who become lovers during the voyage.
Release Date1994-05-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count8
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is a stage play by Tom Stoppard with music by André Previn. It was first performed in 1977. The play criticizes the Soviet practice of treating political dissidence as a form of mental illness. Its title derives from the popular mnemonic used by music students to remember the notes on the lines of the treble clef. The filming was undertaken at a live performance at Wembley Conference Centre in April 1978, conducted by Previn.
Release Date1979-11-14
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Maria's Child
Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the father, admits to cheating on her, she kicks him out. Still unable to decide what to do, she imagines a dialogue with the fetus.
Release Date1993-03-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
She Fell Among Thieves
While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaughter to marry. Pitting his wits against this formidable adversary, Chandos determines to rescue the beautiful young woman. But Vanity Fair keeps one step ahead of him, a trick forever up her sleeve and murder in her heart.
Release Date1978-03-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Secrets
Secrets Chocolates receive an unexpected sales boost when three maintenance workers fall into the chocolate vat and are fed through the production line.
Release Date1973-08-14
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count7
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
A dramatized documentary looking at how the British Board of Film Censors imposed an extraordinary stranglehold over the content of British cinema in the 1930s and exposing their deliberations, opinions and prejudices.
Release Date1986-03-31
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Tragedy of King Richard II
The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfall.
Release Date1970-07-30
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
84 Charing Cross Road
Adaptation of the Helene Hanff memoir, presented as part of Play for Today.
Release Date1975-11-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
A film tycoon hires the wrong writer. Instead of getting the writer of Lawrence of Arabia, he gets someone whose only credits are two episodes of Coronation Street.
Release Date1973-08-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Funny Farm
Funny Farm depicts a night shift by nurse Alan Welbeck (Tim Preece) on a psychiatric ward.
Release Date1975-02-27
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count4