Name Martin Short | Role TV Producer | |
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Nominations British Academy Television Award for Best Factual Series People also search for John Shirley, Anthony McDermott, John Edwards Books Inside the brotherhood, MurderInc: The Story of Organi, Informer: Life in the Shadows, The Krays' Lieutenant, Vigilante! | ||
Martin Short (born 1943) is British TV documentary producer and author. He is best known for his exposés on the Mafia and on Freemasonry.
After reading history at Cambridge University, Short worked from 1969 to 1984 on major current affairs programmes for the ITV companies Thames Television, Granada and London Weekend Television (on the Lebanon) and for Channel 4's Dispatches series (on the international arms trade). In 1998 he presented Charlie Richardson and the British Mafia for Longshot Productions and Channel 4. Short has also completed a television series based on his 1989 book Inside the Brotherhood (Further Secrets of the Freemasons), for the ITV network with Twenty Twenty Television and Granada.
As a result of his work on Freemasonry, Short made an extended appearance on Channel 4's After Dark television discussion series, and in 1989 was praised by then Labour MP Max Madden in his UK House of Commons Early Day Motions numbers 672 and 673.
Short wrote, produced and narrated the prize winning ITV documentary series on the Mafia in America, Crime Incorporated. To accompany the series he also wrote Crime Inc.: A History of Organized Crime in America. In addition to feature articles for The Times, The Spectator, New Statesman, Punch and Time Out, he co-authored (in 1977) The Fall of Scotland Yard about police corruption in London.