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John Brabourne (1924–2005)

Producer | Production Manager | Miscellaneous Crew

A director of Thames Television, Euston Films and Thorn EMI, John Brabourne's entrepreneurial skills were crucial to creating some major successes in the British cinema. In the sixties he produced two celebrated Shakespeare adaptations, the film of Othello starring Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith and Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet... See full bio »

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John Ulick Knatchbull
in London, England, UK

Died:

(age 80) in Kent, England, UK
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1988 Little Dorrit (producer)
 
1984 A Passage to India (producer)
 
1982 Evil Under the Sun (producer)
 
1980 The Mirror Crack'd (producer)
 
1979 Tales from a Flying Trunk (producer)
 
1978 Death on the Nile (producer)
 
1976 The Copter Kids (executive producer)
 
1974 Murder on the Orient Express (producer)
 
1974 Smokey Joe's Revenge (executive producer)
 
1971 Tales of Beatrix Potter (executive producer)
 
1969 The Dance of Death (producer)
 
1968 Romeo and Juliet (producer)
 
1968 Up the Junction (producer)
 
1967 The Mikado (producer)
 
1965 Othello (producer)
 
1962 Damn the Defiant! (producer)
 
1960 Sink the Bismarck! (producer)
 
1958 Harry Black and the Tiger (producer)
 
1957 The Beasts of Marseilles (associate producer)
 
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1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee (production manager)
 
1955 Raising a Riot (production manager)
 
1954 Trouble in the Glen (unit manager)
 
1954 La mano dello straniero (production manager)
 
1953 Laughing Anne (unit manager)
 
1952 Trent's Last Case (assistant production manager - uncredited)
 
1951 The Lady with the Lamp (assistant production manager - uncredited)
 
1950 The Wooden Horse (assistant production manager - uncredited)
 
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1953 The Beggar's Opera (production assistant)
 
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1942 In Which We Serve
Soldier in the Dunkirk Sequence (uncredited)
 
Show ShowSelf (3 titles)
2004 Making 'Murder on the Orient Express' (video documentary)
Himself (as Lord John Brabourne)
 
1990 This Is Your Life (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Lord Brabourne (1990) … Himself (as Lord Brabourne)
 
1978 Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette (TV short)
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He has held various titles and positions, including :President of the Kent Trust for Nature Conservation (1958-97); chairman of Mersham Productions (1970-2005); director of Thames Television (1975-93) and chairman of same (1990-93); Pro-Chancellor at the University of Kent (1992-98) and Provost at Wye College (1994-99) See more »

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Alternate Names:

Lord John Brabourne | Lord Brabourne
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Awarded the CBE (Commander of the order of the British Empire) in 1993. See more »

Star Sign:

Scorpio