Michael John Croucher (17 January 1930 – 26 May 2006) was a British documentary film maker and television producer for the BBC.
[2][3] He started work in 1954 as a trainee sound technician at the BBC in Plymouth, where he made use of his experience in wireless telegraphy.
After moving to BBC Bristol in 1958, he was able to transfer his sound editing skills to television, and began to work on short documentary pieces on magazine programmes.
With Boorman, he pioneered the approach of "filming ordinary people telling their extraordinary stories straight to camera.
"[4] After Boorman began working on cinema films, Croucher became head of documentaries at Bristol, and produced a series of films with largely rural settings, including The Curious Character of Britain, Summer 67, The Way of the Warrior, Seven Ages of Man, and Leap in the Dark.