He was survived by three sons&colon; John, William and Robert of Shivas. The producer was Mark Shivas and direction was shared by Trevor Nunn and Roger Bamford. In 1997, Murphy wrote a sequel, "The Kingdom of Shivas Irons". "A. Hay Prestowe" (co-director 1944) was the pseudonym of Andrew Shivas. Mark Shivas died four years before the film was completed. Shivas was born in Banstead in Surrey. Nat Cohen asked Mark Shivas to produce the film. Shivas wrote for the student magazine "Oxford Opinions". The novel spawned the Shivas Irons Society, an organization whose members combine golf and meditation. A pathologist in later life in Edinburgh, Dr Shivas died of a stroke in 1996.