Maurice Hatton

{{Short description|British screenwriter and film director (1938–1997)}}

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Maurice Hatton (22 May 1938 – 25 October 1997) was a British screenwriter and film director.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba16294dd|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002175611/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba16294dd|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 October 2018|title=Maurice Hatton|publisher=BFI |access-date=25 March 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Monaco |first1=James |title=How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, and Multimedia |date=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195038699 |page=325 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TSSfJb011QgC&pg=PA325 |access-date=25 March 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=Jerry |title=Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors |date=2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810861381 |page=239 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kW8j6sHvrewC&pg=PA239 |access-date=25 March 2022}}

After training as a photographer, Hatton became involved in making documentary films, as a founder of Mithras Films in 1962, moving into making feature films several years later.{{cite news |last1=Wood |first1=Michael |title=Maurice Hatton: A tough-minded view of utopia |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/245195996 |access-date=30 March 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=28 October 1997}}

Hatton was also on the BFI Production Board.{{cite journal |last1=Franklin |first1=Ieuan |title=Roadblocks and Roads Not Taken |journal=Journal of British Cinema and Television |date=2014 |volume=11 |issue=4 |url=https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/jbctv.2014.0228 |access-date=30 March 2022 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press|doi=10.3366/jbctv.2014.0228 }}

Hatton died in 1997 after a heart attack.