Christopher Morahan
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Christopher Morahan at the National Theatre Studio, November 2010
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| Born |
Christopher Thomas Morahan 9 July 1929 London, England |
| Died | 7 April 2017 (aged 87) |
| Occupation | Stage and television director |
| Years active | 1957–2017 |
| Spouse(s) | Joan Murray (her death) Anna Carteret |
| Children | 5 |
Christopher Thomas Morahan CBE (9 July 1929 – 7 April 2017) was an English stage and television director and production executive.
Morahan was born in London in 1929, the son of film production designer Tom Morahan and Nancy (née Barker), his wife, and educated at Highgate School. He trained for the stage at the Old Vic Theatre School from 1947 with actor/director Michel Saint-Denis, designer Margaret Harris, and director George Devine.
Initially an actor, Morahan was subsequently a television director from 1957, beginning with the long-running ITV series Emergency Ward 10, after beginning as a floor manager at ATV. Later, he developed a rapport with writer John Hopkins while working together on Z-Cars. This led to Morahan directing Hopkins' Fable (1965), a Wednesday Play parable locating a reversed South African apartheid in Britain, and the BBC's version of Talking to a Stranger (1966). Morahan gained "brilliant performances from all his cast" wrote Michael Billington of Talking to a Stranger, Michael Bryant, Maurice Denham and Margery Mason being three of the four leads, "but it was Judi Dench as the daughter, forced to reveal her pregnancy to her tight-lipped parents, who astonished everyone. Morahan's first stage production was Jules Feiffer's Little Murders for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre in July 1967, starring Brenda Bruce, Barbara Jefford, Derek Godfrey and Roland Curram.
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