John Brabourne

Producer

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Also Known As

Lord Brabourne

Birth Place

London, England, GB

Born

November 09, 1924

Died

September 29, 2005

Cause of Death

Unspecified Causes

Biography

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Responsible for such fine productions as "Othello" (1965), starring an ebony Laurence Olivier, "Romeo and Juliet" (1968), courtesy of Franco Zeffirelli, and several lively Agatha Christie adaptations. Brabourne also engineered the commercially risky (due to its length), superbly realized interpretation of the Dickens novel, "Little Dorrit" (1988)....

Filmography

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Little Dorrit (1988)

A Passage to India (1984)

Evil Under The Sun (1982)

The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

Stories From a Flying Trunk (1979)

Death on the Nile (1978)

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Passage To India, A (1984) -- (Movie Clip) Chandrapore 12

Passage To India, A (1984) -- (Movie Clip) I Thought She Was A Ghost

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Patricia Mountbatten

Wife

Biography

Responsible for such fine productions as "Othello" (1965), starring an ebony Laurence Olivier, "Romeo and Juliet" (1968), courtesy of Franco Zeffirelli, and several lively Agatha Christie adaptations. Brabourne also engineered the commercially risky (due to its length), superbly realized interpretation of the Dickens novel, "Little Dorrit" (1988).

Filmography

Producer (Feature Film)

Little Dorrit (1988)

A Passage to India (1984)

Evil Under The Sun (1982)

The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

Stories From a Flying Trunk (1979)

Death on the Nile (1978)

The 'Copter Kids (1976)

Executive Producer

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Peter Rabbit And Tales Of Beatrix Potter (1971)

Up the Junction (1968)

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

The Mikado (1967)

Damn the Defiant! (1962)

Sink the Bismarck! (1960)

Harry Black and the Tiger (1958)

Harry Black and the Tiger (1958)

The Beasts Of Marseilles (1957)

Associate Producer

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Raising a Riot (1955)

Production Manager

Trouble in the Glen (1954)

Laughing Anne (1953)

The Beggar's Opera (1953)

Production Assistant

Production Companies (Feature Film)

Damn the Defiant! (1962)

Life Events

1957

First film as producer, "The Seven Thunders"

Videos

Passage To India, A (1984) -- (Movie Clip) Chandrapore 12 A scene not from the E.M. Forster but from director David Lean’s derived screenplay, working on location, Adela (Judy Davis) has just decided against marrying her fiancè, the magistrate she’s come to India to visit, and undertakes a bicycle ride, wild with suggestion, in A Passage To India, 1984.

Passage To India, A (1984) -- (Movie Clip) I Thought She Was A Ghost Adela (Judy Davis), visiting from England and determined to experience something of the “real India,” is conversing with Dr. Aziz (Victor Banerjee) and scholar Professor Godbole (Alec Guiness) when her fiancè, colonial judge Ronny (Nigel Havers) appears, finding everything inappropriate, in David Lean’s A Passage To India, 1984.

Passage To India, A (1984) -- (Movie Clip) The Viceroy's On Board Director David Lean’s screenplay takes a predictably cinematic grip on the E.M. Forster novel, introducing Judy Davis as Adela Quested in1920’s London, Peter Hughes the P&O man, Peggy Ashcroft, as Mrs. Moore, mother of her betrothed, opening A Passage To India, 1984.

Passage To India, A (1984) -- (Movie Clip) I Give Any Englishman Two Years Director David Lean finishes the train journey to fictional interior Chandrapore, introducing Nigel Havers as colonial official Ronny, greeting his mother (Peggy Ashcroft), his betrothed Adela (Judy Davis), his boss (Richard Wilson), then two locals central to the E.M. Forster story, Victor Banerjee and Art Malik, in A Passage To India, 1984.

Evil Under The Sun (1982) -- (Movie Clip) Hercules Parrot A murder on the moors sets up the entrance of Peter Ustinov in his second outing as Agatha Christie's sleuth Hercule Poirot, Richard Vernon the bemused banker employing him, in director Guy Hamilton's all-star puzzler Evil Under The Sun, 1982.

Evil Under The Sun (1982) -- (Movie Clip) Far Too Many Skeletons Hotelier Maggie Smith greets Peter Ustinov as detective Poirot, before the first evening's cocktail party, with Roddy McDowall, James Mason, Sylvia Miles, Jane Birkin and others but finally dominated by Diana Rigg, in the Agatha Christie mystery Evil Under The Sun, 1982.

Othello (1965) -- (Movie Clip) My Heart Upon My Sleeve Origin of the phrase, Venetian Iago (Frank Finlay) and Roderigo (Robert Lang) lament the latter's failed pursuit of Desedemona, whose father (Anthony Nicholls) they tell of her marriage to the title character (Laurence Olivier), opening this 1965 version of Shakespeare's Othello.

Othello (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Here Comes The Lady Summoned before the duke (Harry Lomax), Moorish Venetian general Othello (Laurence Olivier) explains to nobleman Brabantio (Anthony Nicholls) that he has in fact married his daughter Desedemona (Maggie Smith), who arrives to confirm, in the 1965 British production of Shakespeare's Othello.

Little Dorrit, Part One (1988) -- (Movie Clip) I've Seen Very Little From credits establishing the milieu of Dickensian 1830's London, the first appearance of Clennam (Derek Jacobi), in a coffee house, accosted by a fellow customer (Christopher Hancock), in Christine Edzard's acclaimed 1988 production, Little Dorrit: Part One.

Little Dorrit, Part One (1988) -- (Movie Clip) He's Not To Be Blamed Lawyer Clennam (Derek Jacobi) fulfills his promise to meet "Little" Dorrit (Sarah Pickering), daughter of an imprisoned debtor he hopes to help, on London's Iron Bridge, in the 1988 production from the Dickens novel, Little Dorrit: Part One.

Little Dorrit, Part One (1988) -- (Movie Clip) Nobody's Fault Fredrick Dorrit (Cyril Cusack) escorts lawyer Clennam (Derek Jacobi) to meet his inmate brother William (Alec Guinness, his first scene) at the Marshalsea prison, where the author Charles Dickens' father spent some time, in Little Dorrit: Part One, 1988, Sarah Pickering the title character.

Death on the Nile - (Original Trailer) Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) investigates the murder of an heiress during an Egyptian tour in Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile (1978).

Passage to India, A - (Original Trailer) A false rape charge threatens British-Indian relations in director David Lean's last movie, A Passage to India (1984).

Romeo and Juliet (1968) - (Wide release Trailer) Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting are Shakespeare's ill-starred teens in Franco Zeffirelli's movie of Romeo and Juliet (1968).

Othello (1965) - (Original Trailer) Laurence Olivier stars as Shakespeare's Othello (1965) with Maggie Smith as Desdemona and Frank Finlay as Iago.

Murder on the Orient Express - (Original Trailer) Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a mysterious businessman on a train ride in Murder on the Orient Express (1974)starring Albert Finney.

Damn The Defiant! - (Original Trailer) Mutiny threatens His Majesty's warship during the war against Napoleon in Damn The Defiant! (1962) starring Alec Guinness.

Companions

Patricia Mountbatten

Wife

Bibliography

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