Michael Grade

Acting

Michael Grade

Overview

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Acting
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Birthday
Mar 08, 1943 (82 years old)

Michael Grade

Known For

Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story
1h 0m
TV Show 2022

Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story

In 1963, armed with just a typewriter, a Midlands housewife...

Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes
1h 0m
Movie 2021

Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes

A series of sketches taken from the recently-unearthed Morecambe &...

Golazzo: The Football Italia Story
0h 58m
Movie 2018

Golazzo: The Football Italia Story

A retrospective of the Football Italia show

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
1h 0m
Movie 2016

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at...

Burt Bacharach - A Life in Song
Movie 2016

Burt Bacharach - A Life in Song

Filmed at London's Royal Festival Hall in 2015, A Life...

The Fight for Saturday Night
1h 29m
Movie 2014

The Fight for Saturday Night

Michael Grade tells a tale of television skullduggery and dirty...

The Real Tom Thumb: History's Smallest Superstar
1h 30m
Movie 2014

The Real Tom Thumb: History's Smallest Superstar

Michael Grade reveals the story of General Tom Thumb, the...

Goodbye Television Centre
2h 8m
Movie 2013

Goodbye Television Centre

After 53 years Television Centre, the BBC's TV headquarters, is...

Frost on Sketch Shows
0h 57m
Movie 2013

Frost on Sketch Shows

Sir David Frost traces the development of the sketch show...

The Story of Music Hall
1h 30m
Movie 2011

The Story of Music Hall

Michael Grade traces the raucous history of the music hall...

Biography

Michael Ian Grade, Baron Grade of Yarmouth, CBE is an English television executive and businessman. He was chairman of the BBC from 2004 to 2006 and executive chairman of ITV plc from 2007 to 2009. Since 2011, he has been a Conservative Party life peer in the House of Lords.