Mark Shivas (24 April 1938 – 11 October 2008) was a British television producer, film producer and executive.Born in Banstead Surrey, Shivas was the son of a schoolmaster father who specialising in teaching English and a mother who was a librarian. He attended Whitgift School in Croydon and Merton College, Oxford where he read Law. While at University, Shivas wrote for the student magazine Oxford Opinions.