Michael Hurll

Michael Hurll was a British television producer who specialized in the comedy and light entertainment genres. He produced many British TV shows including The Two Ronnies, Top of the Pops, and Blind Date. He was for many years a producer for the BBC, and later worked for LWT and as an independent producer. He also had a long association with television hosts Cilla Black and Noel Edmonds. At the BBC, he was the producer of The Eurovision Song Contest twice, taking charge of the 1974 contest in Brighton and again in 1982 in Harrogate. ^{Michael Hurll, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)}

7 October 1936

Born on the same birth day (7 October): Alfred Drake • Antoine Revoy • Charlotte Perrelli • Damian Kulash • Dan Savage • Herman Keiser • John F. B. Mitchell • Joy Behar • Nicholas I of Montenegro • Peter Walker (racing driver) • Ralph Johnson (computer scientist) • Robert Z. Leonard • Yo-Yo Ma

Born in the same month (October 1936): Akira Machida • Andrei Chikatilo • Bert Nievera • Billy Higgins • Charles Goodhart • Dick Barnett • Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino • James M. McPherson • John Blashford-Snell • Masako Nozawa • Mladen Koščak • Polina Astakhova • Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell • Santiago Navarro • Shelley Morrison