Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett

Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett (22 October 1929 – 3 April 2015) was a British film producer/director, author and hereditary peer.

The only son of Norman, 1st Baron Birkett by his wife, Ruth (née Nilsson), Birkett attended Stowe before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge (MA).

On 10 February 1962, he succeeded his father as the 2nd Baron Birkett, a UK Peerage title created in 1958.

Birkett produced Sir Peter Hall's 1969 film A Midsummer Night's Dream and Peter Brook's pictures Marat/Sade (1967) and King Lear (1971), starring Paul Scofield. Executive producer of Brook's television mini-series The Mahabharata (1989), later he produced Harold Pinter's The Caretaker (1962) starring Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence and Robert Shaw, and directed by Clive Donner.

He was author of The Story of the Ring, a retelling of Wagner's operatic epic, published in 2009.

Birkett served as Deputy Director of The National Theatre between 1975 and 1977 (under Sir Peter Hall), subsequently being engaged as a consultant, before being appointed Director for Recreation and Arts at the Greater London Council from 1979 until its abolition in 1986.

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