Alan Shallcross (8 June 1932 in Heswall, Cheshire (now Merseyside) – 22 December 2010) was a British television producer He was born in Thelwall and attended Calday Grange Grammar School.
[1] He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where his contemporaries were Alan Bennett and Russell Harty,[2] He joined BBC Television initially working as a programme planner.
Under Messina, Shallcross worked as script editor on the first twelve productions in the BBC Television Shakespeare cycle.
[2] He was the producer of such single plays (in this case with Jack Levin) as Ian Curteis' Churchill and the Generals (1979) and several episodes of the BBC2 Playhouse series.
[3] One of his last productions was a serial adaptation of the Oswald Wynd novel The Ginger Tree (1989) co-produced by the BBC, Japanese broadcaster NHK and WGBH Boston from the novel of the same name.