William MacQuitty

William MacQuitty
Subject Name	William MacQuitty
Birth name	William MacQuitty
Date of birth	15 May 1905
Place of birth	Rosetta, Belfast, Ireland
Date of death	4 February 2004 (aged 98)
Place of death	London, UK
Cause of death	Natural causes
Occupation	Film producer Author Photographer
Parents	James McQuitty Henrietta Little

William MacQuitty (15 May 1905 – 4 February 2004) was an Irish film producer and also a writer and photographer. He is most noted for his production of the 1958 Rank Organisation / Pinewood Studios film, A Night to Remember, which recreates the story of the sinking of RMS Titanic, based on the book of the same name by Walter Lord. MacQuitty had seen Titanic being launched, when he was a child.

He was a Titanic researcher and had close working relationships with Walter Lord, a historian that investigated the disaster very accurately. He was the author of the similiarly named book, which formed the inspiration for MacQuitty's film.