title: Michael Aitkens
text: # Michael Aitkens
  
  Michael Aitkens (born 1947) is a British actor and writer of drama scripts for movies, television and stage. His BBC situation comedy Waiting for God, first shown in 1990, was BAFTA nominated.
  
  Michael Aitkens was educated at Haileybury in England. He then lived in Australia for ten years and Los Angeles, United States, for two years, graduating from the AFI Conservatory (Los Angeles) in 1981.
  
  In the mid-1980s, Aitkens featured in the Australian children's television series The Henderson Kids as Walter Mullens, the long lost father of Tam and Steve Henderson.
  
  More than 150 of his scripts have been produced in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia. He now lives in London, where he works as a writer/producer, mainly of his own original series, and formed an independent production company, DAISYLU. He is also an occasional humorous newspaper columnist.
  
  He has been a core writer for Midsomer Murders since 2006.
  
  ## Filmography
  
  ### Film
  
  * The Man Who Shot the Albatross (1972)
  
  ### Television
  
  * Run From the Morning (1978)
  * The Henderson Kids (1985) as Walter Mullens
  
  ## Theatre
  
  * The Man Who Shot the Albatross (1971) at the Princess Theatre for the MTC
  