{{Short description|English film and television producer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} '''Martyn Auty''' (born July 1951 in Yorkshire) is an English film and television producer. He attended the University of Hull and graduated in 1972. He began his career as a film critic for ''Time Out'' and ''The Monthly Film Bulletin''.
Auty is most famous for his series producing, having worked on ''Heartbeat'' and ''A Touch of Frost''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/profile--fools-if-you-think-its-over-1277439.html|title=PROFILE : FOOLS IF YOU THINK IT'S OVER|last=Rampton|first=James|date=8 February 1997|work=The Independent|accessdate=12 February 2011}}</ref> during the 1990s, however, he has also worked on a variety of other styles of programme. These include ''Lenny Live and Unleashed'',<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/80302/lenny-live-and-unleashed.html|title=Lenny Live and Unleashed|magazine=Time Out|accessdate=12 February 2011}}</ref> ''Soul Survivors'', ''Four Fathers'' and ''A Gentleman's Relish''. The latter, which starred Billy Connolly, was made for the BBC in 2001. Auty returned to shooting a new series of ''A Touch of Frost'' in 2009.
Auty has also ventured into making motion pictures, having produced ''A Foreign Field'' (1993), ''Heidi'' (2005), and most recently ''Ways to Live Forever'' (2010).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2005/aug/21/features.review6|title=Heidi|last=French|first=Philip|date=21 August 2005|work=The Guardian|accessdate=12 February 2011}}</ref>
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