Career
He is also a documentary and music filmmaker who has worked on numerous current affairs and entertainment productions, including the late night discussion programme After Dark. Don Coutts left school in 1967, and began work with the Simon Community before moving to London. Soon afterwards he was employed by Columbia Pictures as a clerk.
Following work in Columbia"s laboratories, he got a job in the studio"s cutting rooms and worked on several films as an assistant film editors
Subsequently Coutts was employed by Anglia television and British Broadcasting Corporation East as an assistant film editors As director of After Dark, Coutts developed an innovative televisual language of big close-ups, pulled focus and a panning system that was new to British talk show programming.
Katie Morag (2013) Dear Green Place (2007) American Cousins (2003) Rose (1998) Dead Sea Reels (1996) Street Antony’s Day Office (1995) When Summers Were Longer: Huts at Carbeth.
