John Ulick Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, CBE (9 November 1924 – 23 September 2005) was a British peer, television producer and Academy-award nominated film producer.
Brabourne was a TV producer from 1958 to 1988 and was a director of Mersham Productions in 1970, a director of Thames Television (later Chairman) and Euston Films from 1978 to 1995, and a director of Thorn EMI from 1981 to 1986. In 1979, he was invested as a Fellow of the British ...
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John Ulick Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, CBE (9 November 1924 – 23 September 2005) was a British peer, television producer and Academy-award nominated film producer.
Brabourne was a TV producer from 1958 to 1988 and was a director of Mersham Productions in 1970, a director of Thames Television (later Chairman) and Euston Films from 1978 to 1995, and a director of Thorn EMI from 1981 to 1986. In 1979, he was invested as a Fellow of the British Film Institute and made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.
His filmography includes Harry Black, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, A Passage to India, Sink the Bismarck!, and Little Dorrit.
Lord Brabourne was born in 1924, the son of Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne and his wife, the Lady Doreen Browne. He was educated at Eton College and Brasenose College, Oxford. He served in the Coldstream Guards, rising to the rank of Captain and fought in France in the Second World War from 1943.
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