[Deathwatch] Lord John Brabourne, producer, 80

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LONDON (AP) - Lord John Brabourne, a producer whose films included ``A
Passage to India'' and ``Murder on the Orient Express,'' has died, his
family said. He was 80. 

The cause of death Thursday (Sep 22) was not announced. 

Brabourne survived an Irish Republican Army attack in 1979 that killed
his 14-year-old son and his father-in-law, Lord Mountbatten. 

Brabourne, who was a director of Thames Television, produced many films
based on Agatha Christie's books, including ``Death on the Nile,''
``The Mirror Crack'd'' and ``Evil Under the Sun.'' 

Other productions included ``Othello'' with Laurence Olivier in 1965
and ``Sink the Bismarck'' in 1959. 




Many thanks to Stevie Davidson for posting this obituary