Robin J Bextor was born on 11 October 1953 and is an English film and television producer and director.
15 Facts About Robin Bextor
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Robin Bextor is the father of the dance-pop singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
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Robin Bextor directed Edward on Edward, a documentary in which Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh discussed King Edward VIII.
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Robin Bextor then worked as director of programmes for Ardent, but left to pursue other projects.
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Robin Bextor has since made programmes with the French duo Air; The Damned; The Stranglers; and UB40.
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Robin Bextor directed the cult short film Norfolk Coast, featuring Susannah York and Jean Jacques Burnel.
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Robin Bextor is a majority shareholder of the Soho post production business Vivid, responsible for programmes on the England football team, Test cricket and Fulham FC, as well as many arts subjects.
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Robin Bextor has won the Columbus award for The British Schindler, shown on ITV in 2005, and a BAFTA.
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Robin Bextor has been director of the Chichester Festival for five years and a trustee of the Brighton theatre company Dream, Think, Speak.
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Robin Bextor has had a successful career as a writer, writing for newspapers and magazines and the book to accompany the TV series Crown and Country.
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Robin Bextor is a director of Glyndebourne Productions in East Sussex.
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Robin Bextor wrote The Story of the London Underground, published that same year.
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Robin Bextor wrote and directed a four-part music series, The Sound of the 60s, and a book of the series, published the same year.
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Robin Bextor has made films on 10cc, Squeeze, Cara Dillon, the French band Air, and The Feeling, with Kiefer Sutherland.
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Robin Bextor was one of the founders, alongside his daughter Sophie and son-in-law Richard Jones, of the Meribel Music Festival in the French Alps, called The Little World Festival.