Don Coutts

Don Coutts is a Scottish filmmaker best known as the director of the 2003 feature film American Cousins and for bringing the world of Katie Morag to the screen.

He is also a documentary and music filmmaker who has worked on numerous current affairs and entertainment productions,[1] including the late night discussion programme After Dark.

Don Coutts left school in 1967, and began work with the Simon Community before moving to London.

Subsequently, Coutts was employed by Anglia TV and BBC East as an assistant film editor.

At this time Coutts insisted he was the black sheep of the banking family.