Max Morgan-Witts is a British producer, director and author of Canadian origin. Morgan-Witts was a Director/Producer at Granada TV. He directed hundreds of popular television shows for Granada, including: 50 episodes of The Army Game, at the time Britain's highest-rated television programme. Afterwards Morgan-Witts directed 15 of the earliest episodes of Coronation Street, which followed The Army Game as Britain's top-rated TV show. After his successes at Granada TV, Morgan-Witts moved to BBC TV, where he was responsible for many documentary programmes. This included 14 one-hour programmes titled The British Empire, a historical documentary series. It was filmed in 40 countries and at the time was the most expensive and ambitious documentary series the BBC had ever made. He was editor and executive producer of Tomorrow's World, a hugely successful, live, weekly, popular science programme. He was Director and Producer of many one-hour film documentaries made for peak time viewing on BBC One, most of which he wrote himself but for one of which he hired Gordon Thomas. This was the beginning of their writing partnership. 

September 27th, 1931 in (Age 93)