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May 17, 1993 · Cedric Messina, a television producer whose work included plays by Shakespeare, died on April 30 in London, the British press reported last week. He was 72. The cause of death was not given....
Cedric Messina (14 December 1920 [1] in Port Elizabeth, South Africa — 30 April 1993 in London) [2] was a South-African born British television producer and director who worked for the BBC and is best remembered for his involvement in television productions of classic drama.
Cedric Eugene Messina, television producer: born Port Elizabeth, South Africa 1920; married (one daughter); died London 30 April 1993.
In 1979 Messina had produced Ian Curteis’s epic documentary drama Suez 1956 and was set to produced the author’s similar The Falklands Play in 1986 until it was cancelled in contentious circumstances, becoming a media cause célèbre.
His final production was 'The Happy Valley' (Sunday Premier, tx. 6/9/1987), a drama based on a notorious unsolved murder which occurred in Kenya in 1942. Oliver Wake. Producer, Director.
CEDRIC MESSINA is Producer of The Shakespeare Plays, a six-year, 37-play series recently launched by the British Broadcasting Corporation in association with Time-Life Television and underwritten in the United States by Exxon Corporation, Metro-politan Life Insurance Company, and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York.
Cedric Messina (14 December 1920 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa — 30 April 1993 in London) was a South-African born British television producer and director who worked for the BBC and is best remembered for his involvement in television productions of classic drama.
