John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne

John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne

John Ulick Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, CBE (9 November 1924 – 23 September 2005), professionally known as John Brabourne, 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.

John Brabourne received two Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, as producer of Romeo and Juliet (1968) and A Passage to India (1984).[1] His filmography also includes Harry Black, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, Sink the Bismarck!, and Little Dorrit.[2]

Personal life

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.

On 26 October 1946, at Romsey Abbey in Hampshire, at the age of 21, he married the Honourable Patricia Mountbatten, elder daughter and heiress of Viscount Mountbatten, later Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. He and his wife were one of the few couples who both held titles in their own right. They had seven children, including the following:

Brabourne, his wife, and his son Timothy (Nicholas' twin brother) were injured, but survived the attack.

Lord Brabourne served as a governor of various schools, including: Norton Knatchbull School from 1947 to 2000, Wye Agricultural College from 1955 to 2000, and Gordonstoun School from 1964 to 1994. He was also a Pro-Chancellor of the University of Kent from 1993 to 1999.

He died in 2005 at his home in Kent at the age of 80.[2]

References

  1. ^ Search of Academy Awards Database, accessed 23 March 2011.
  2. ^ a b Death on the Nile producer dies, BBC News, 23 September 2005.

External links

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Michael Knatchbull
Baron Brabourne
1943–2005
Succeeded by
Norton Knatchbull

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