Born John Ulick Knatchbull in London, England; educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford. The seventh Baron Brabourne, he succeeded the title when his brother, Norton, was killed by German gunfire whilst attempting to escape from a prisoner-of-war train in 1943. During the war John Brabourne served as an officer in the Coldstream Guards in France. He married Patricia Mountbatten, daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the First Sea Lord, in 1946, which helped getting Royal Naval assistance for various movies. Involved in the making of many fine British productions from the late 50s on: SINK THE BISMARCK (1960), OTHELLO (1965), THE MIKADO (1967), Zeffirelli's ROMEO AND JULIET (1968), THE DANCE OF DEATH (1968), MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974), DEATH ON THE NILE (1978), THE MIRROR CRACK'D (1980), EVIL UNDER THE SUN (1982) and his last film, LITTLE DORRIT (1988). He earned two Oscar® nominations, the last of which was for A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984). In 1979 he was lucky to escape with his life when he was one of the seven people on board Earl Mountbatten's small fishing boat the Shadow V, in the harbor of Mullaghmore Bay, County Sligo, when it was blown up by a bomb planted beneath the steering wheel and remotely set off by the Provisional Wing of the IRA. Mountbatten, Brabourne's mother, the Dowager Lady Brabourne, his 14-year-old son Nicholas and a local boy working as crew were killed, and Brabourne, his wife and another son, Tim, were all badly injured. Lord Brabourne was also a governor of the British Film Institute and was appointed a CBE in 1983 for his services to the film industry.  Nominated for Best Picture 1968: ROMEO AND JULIET - Producer at B.H.E.-Verona (w. Anthony Havelock-Allan)  Nominated for Best Picture 1984: A PASSAGE TO INDIA - Producer at G.W. Films, Ltd. (w. Richard Goodwin) 2 nominations