John Ulick Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, CBE, 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 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 and A Passage to India. His filmography also includes Harry Black, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, Sink the Bismarck! , and Little Dorrit

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