- Allan Scott (Scottish screenwriter)
Allan Scott, the alias of Allan Shiach,Cite news
author = Rob Sharp and Allan Shiach
title = Heath Ledger–A Prophetic Tragedy
url = http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/heath-ledger--a-prophetic-tragedy-795344.html
work =The Independent
publisher = "independent.co.uk" (Arts: Entertainment: Film and TV: Features)
date = 2008-03-18
accessdate = 2008-03-20] (born16 September ,1940 ,Elgin, Scotland ) is a screenwriter and producer, nominated for BAFTA's Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film and aGenie Award for his 1997 film "Regeneration". WinnerEdgar Award (1976) and Writers' Guild Award (1978).Notes
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Allan Scott was born in Scotland and educated at Gordonstoun School and McGill University, Montreal where he obtained a B.A. in English Literature. After training in the Scotch whisky industry, he worked as a writer for television both in the USA and the UK during the seventies while also serving as a non-executive director of Macallan-Glenlivet plc.
He became Chairman and Chief Executive of Macallan-Glenlivet in the late ‘70’s, a role he held until 1996, during which period the company’s market capitalization on the London Stock Exchange grew some two hundredfold, its reputation for innovative and focussed marketing and management helping to establish a highly successful international brand of malt whisky. He served for several years on the Broadcasting Council of BBC Scotland and in 1986 succeeded Sir Denis Forman as Chairman of the Scottish Film Production Fund. His subsequent Chairmanship of the Scottish Film Council lasted for six years and following upon the SFC’s initiative to create a new, broadly-based body for the Scottish screen industries (the Film Archive, Media Education, Exhibition, Screen Locations and Production Fund), he was appointed the first Chairman of the new organization named Scottish Screen. Having chaired the Interim Board which supervised the transition and consolidation, he remained as Chairman for a further year before stepping down in 1998, after twelve years of involvement with Scotland’s film making bodies.
While continuing his career as a screenwriter and producer, he was also a director of both Caledonian Newspapers and Scottish Television plc and when the companies merged, to form SMG plc, he remained on the board for thirteen years. He was appointed a Governor of The British Film Institute in 1992 and served that Board for some six years. He is also a former Chairman of The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, thus perhaps the only person ever to chair a trades union and a Stock Exchange company at the same time.
He was Executive Producer of the thriller SHALLOW GRAVE (1992.) He also wrote and produced the BAFTA-nominated film, REGENERATION (1997) as well as THE FOURTH ANGEL (2001.) He has written or co-written over a dozen films including THE AWAKENING (with Chris Bryant, 1982) and five films directed by Nicolas Roeg: DON'T LOOK NOW (with Chris Bryant, 1974), CASTAWAY (1986), THE WITCHES (1990), COLD HEAVEN (1991) and TWO DEATHS (1995.) He was also co-writer of THE PREACHER'S WIFE (1996) and IN LOVE AND WAR (1997).
He is the co-writer and co-producer the stage musical adaptation of the 1990’s film THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT which opened in Sydney in October 2006 and has since become the most successful Australian stage musicals of all time, seen by over a million people and grossing over $90m in Australia and New Zealand. Productions of the show are due in London, Scandinavia, North America and elsewhere in 2009 and 2010.
Awarded honorary doctorates by Napier University, Edinburgh (2007) and by Aberdeen University (2008).
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