Mischa Scorer was educated at Westminster School and Jesus College, Oxford.
He worked as producer for BBC Television from 1965 to 1979, first in the Religious Broadcasting Department where he made such documentaries as "Padre Pio" (1968) for which he won the first prize in the WACC Monte Carlo Film Festival and in 1969 "The Vatican", the first ever major televised documentary about the Vatican.
From 1986 to 1988 he produced and directed a seven-part series, "Testament", for Channel Four about the history of the Bible, with John Romer.
He produced and directed for the BBC a documentary, Songs of Experience, to mark the 85th birthday of the composer Sir Michael Tippett.
During the 1990s he made a number of documentaries in the BBC's "Omnibus" series, including films with Jung Chang, Isabel Allende, Joshua Bell, András Schiff, Roland Petit and Zizi Jeanmaire.