Stewart Morris, television producer, was born on March 30, 1930. He
died after a short illness on January 10, 2009 aged 78. In the golden
age of British light entertainment Stewart Morris was the last of the
great showman producers. Briefly head of Variety at the BBC, Morris
worked with some of the all-time great names of the small screen. In
an era that pre-dated the more conservative budgets of modern times,
he was a producer for the grand gesture, a director for the
spectacular.

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Morris had an eye for the breathtaking shot as well as a special
talent for working with “talent”. He created landmark shows for the
likes of Rolf Harris and Shirley Bassey, and directed stars from Bruce
Forsyth to Sammy Davis Jr, from Dudley Moore to Frank Sinatra. Trusted
with prestige events like the Eurovision Song Contest and the Royal
Variety Performance, he made more than a thousand television shows,
many of them seen around the world.

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