Alan Shallcross was a British television producer

Educated at Exeter College, Oxford

Exeter College, Oxford

Exeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth oldest college of the University. The main entrance is on the east side of Turl Street...

, where his contemporaries were Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett is a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research mediaeval history at the university for several years...

 and Russell Harty

Russell Harty

Russell Harty was an English television presenter of arts programmes and chat shows.-Early life:Born Frederick Russell Harty in Blackburn, Lancashire, he was the son of a fruit and vegetable stallholder on the local market...

, he joined BBC Television initially working as a programme planner. Shifting to programme production he came to know the producer Cedric Messina

Cedric Messina

Cedric Messina was a South African born British television producer and director for the BBC of mainly classic drama...

, responsible for adaptations of classic plays, and worked with him on such such anthology series as Play of the Month

Play of the Month

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles...

. Under Messina, Shallcross worked as script editor on the first twelve productions in the BBC Television Shakespeare

BBC Television Shakespeare

The BBC Television Shakespeare was a set of television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985.-Origins:...

 cycle.

He was the producer of such single plays (in this case with Jack Levin

Jack Levin (producer)

Jack Levin was an American television producer, active in British and American television.-Selected filmography:*The Gathering Storm*The Finest Hours...

) as Ian Curteis

Ian Curteis

Ian Bayley Curteis is a British television dramatist and former television director.In a career as a television dramatist from the late 1960s onwards, Curteis wrote for many of the series of the day, including The Onedin Line and Crown Court. In 1979, two television plays by Curteis were...

' Churchill and the Generals

Churchill and the Generals

Churchill and the Generals is a 1979 BBC television video taped play concerning the relationship between Winston Churchill and generals of the Allied forces between 1940 and 1945. It was written by Ian Curteis and screened on 5 March 1981 in the United States.-Cast:*Timothy West - Winston...

(1979) and several episodes of the BBC2 Playhouse series. One of his last productions was a serial adaptation of the Oswald Wynd

Oswald Wynd

Oswald Wynd was a Scottish writer, born in Tokyo of parents who had left their native Perth to run a mission in Japan.He attended schools in Japan where he grew up speaking both English and Japanese. In 1932 he returned with his parents to Scotland, and studied at the University of Edinburgh and...

 novel The Ginger Tree (1989) co-produced by the BBC, Japanese broadcaster NHK

NHK

NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....

 and WGBH Boston

WGBH-TV

WGBH-TV, channel 2, is a non-commercial educational public television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WGBH-TV is a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service , and produces more than two-thirds of PBS's national prime time television programming...

. Alan Shallcross retired in the late 1990s, moving to Settle in Yorkshire.

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