Trivia

Granger entered a civil partnership with his partner from 1949 and interior director, Kenneth Partridge in 2006 until Partridge's death in 2015.

He made in 1981, Brideshead Revisited starring Jeremy Irons.

He returned to Coronation Street with the hit spin-off Pardon the Expression (1966) with Leonard Swindley (Arthur Lowe) being relocated to the branch of a national chain store as assistant manager. However, Turn Out the Lights (1967), a spin-off of the spin-off, with Swindley as a ghost hunter, bombed.

In 1938, after leaving Eastbourne College, Granger joined the Southern Publishing Company as a reporter on the Sussex Daily News and the Evening Argus in Brighton.

Granger was executive producer of two drama series, The Inside Man (1969), about a psychiatrist-criminologist, and Wicked Women (1970), the stories of female Victorian criminals for the new London ITV company LWT.

In 1962, he created and produced the sitcom Bulldog Breed (1962), starring Donald Churchill as the disaster-prone Tom Bowler and Amanda Barrie as his girlfriend, Sandra Prentiss.

Granger first saw Laurence Olivier as a star in Romeo and Juliet at the New theatre, London, in 1935 when Granger watched the performance. In 1952, he was appointed by Laurence Olivier as the Financial Times' newly launched arts pages' first drama critic.

As the second producer of Coronation Street (1961-1962), a seven-month strike by Equity members meant that only 13 actors on long-term contracts could appear. When Granger's ruse of using tall children to deliver milk and post failed to impress the union, he put Dennis Tanner (played by Philip Lowrie), one of Coronation Street's characters in charge of a theatrical agency and filled out scenes with snakes, sea lions, pigeons, dogs and a chimp.

He was a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve establishing himself as a theatre critic when he returned to work for the papers.

From 1969 to 1972, Granger was Laurence Olivier's, who was artistic director at the National Theatre, literary consultant. He then made the Bafta award-winning Country Matters (1972-73), based on stories by H. E. Bates and A. E. Coppard, the anthology series Laurence Olivier Presents (1976-78) for Granada, which he co-produced with Olivier, featuring six plays of the actor's choice, all but one starring him. They included Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Harold Pinter's The Collection.

He made two literary film adaptations with Sturridge such as A Handful of Dust (1988) and Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991) after leaving Granda in 1982.

He was a British film and television producer, and screenwriter. He worked on Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust, and Where Angels Fear to Tread, but he produced also music programs in 1968.

When he was 14, the family moved to Eastbourne, where his father managed a chain of confectionery shops.

In 1964, Granger executive produced World in Action which featured Seven Up! which in turn featured seven year olds with Michael Apted, who was the show's researcher who would subsequently visit as director of stand-alone programmes every seven years to chart the ups and downs of their lives and presented Granada's regional programme Cinema during 1964 and 1965.

In 1958, he worked as a researcher for Granada Television and was the head of plays (1958-61) for Granada Television.