Richard Everitt

Richard Everitt began his association with Coronation Street by acting as floor manager on episode one, before moving on to direct and in 1968 produce it.

Other directing credits include The odd man (alongside Eric Price, Gerard Dynevor, and Derek Bennett, and other such Coronation Street alumni as Harry Driver, Jack Rosenthal, and H.V.Kershaw), Crown Court and Noddy.

As a producer Everitt worked on several television programmes including Jack Rosenthal's The Dustbinmen, The XYY man, it's sequal Bulman, and latterly Lovejoy.

He was born in Cambridgeshire on the 28th July 1933 and died in Manchester the 1st September 2004.