John Ulick Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, CBE (9 November 1924-23 September 2005) was a British peer and a television producer.

Knatchbull 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.

His filmography includes Harry Black, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, A Passage to India, Sink the Bismarck!, and Little Dorrit. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4275336.stm

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 (I) and Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet (1968/I). He also produced a film version of August Strindberg's Dance of Death, The (1969), starring Olivier. John Ulick Knatchbull, the seventh Baron Brabourne, was born in 1924 and educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford. He succeeded the title when his brother, Norton, was killed in action 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, in 1946. Brabourne began his film career as a production manager on such movies as Battle of the River Plate, The (1956) (1956) and he later co-produced the wartime drama Sink the Bismarck! (1960) with Richard Goodwin. Three years later he and Goodwin set up a consortium to introduce Pay-TV, a cable service whose subscribers would buy films, opera and the arts on meter. The scheme eventually failed and Brabourne and his partners decided to wind up the operation with £1 million losses. "We were years ahead of our time," he said. Brabourne went on to produce a series of box office hits including Up the Junction (1968), Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971), Murder on the Orient Express (1974) starring Albert Finney, Death on the Nile (1978) with Peter Ustinov, Mirror Crack'd, The (1980) with Elizabeth Taylor (I), Evil Under the Sun (1982) (1982) again with Ustinov, and _Little Dorrit_ (1988) starring Alec Guinness. He always described himself as a "creative producer". "I've always been very involved with the directors," he said. "I set out to become a director myself but changed my mind. The things that interested me were the story, which is number one for me, the script, which is certainly number two, and the third really important factor is the editing. I found that, although I like to work with actors, I don't really have a feeling for directing." He was also a governor of the British Film Institute and was appointed a CBE in 1983 for his services to the film industry.