A director of Thames Television, Euston Films and Thorn EMI, John Brabourne's entrepreneurial skills were crucial to creating some major successes in the British cinema. In the sixties he produced two celebrated Shakespeare adaptations, the 1965 film of _Othello_ starring Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith and Franco Zeffirelli磗 1968 Romeo and Juliet (1968/I). He also produced a film version of August Strindberg磗 The Dance of Death (1969), starring Olivier.John Ulick Knatchbull, the seventh B ...[Read Story]