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Michael Grade

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

Mar 8, 1943 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England

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.

Known For

Acting
2025Being Stanley BaxterSelf
2022Sunday with Laura KuenssbergSelf – Chair, Ofcom
2022Banned! The Mary Whitehouse StorySelf
2022Days That Shook the BBC with David DimblebySelf
2021Morecambe & Wise: The Lost TapesSelf
2018Golazzo: The Football Italia StorySelf
2018Morecambe & Wise in AmericaSelf
2018Billy Connolly: Made in ScotlandSelf
2016Burt Bacharach - A Life in Song
2016British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at OurselvesSelf
2014The Real Tom Thumb: History's Smallest SuperstarNarrator
2014The Fight for Saturday NightSelf - Presenter
2014A Life on ScreenSelf
2013Frost on Sketch ShowsSelf
2013Goodbye Television CentreSelf - Host
2013The Many Faces of Stanley BaxterSelf
2011The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse
2011Eric & Ernie: Behind the ScenesSelf
2011The Story of Music HallSelf
2011The Story of Variety with Michael Grade
2008Trials and Tribulations(archive footage)
2008Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten SagaSelf
2008Stanley Baxter: Now and ThenSelf
2002The Trial of Jack The RipperSelf
2002Best Ever BondSelf
2001This is Stanley BaxterSelf
1997Jonathan CreekMichael Grade (uncredited)
1994Room 101Self
1990Have I Got News for YouSelf
1988An Audience With Victoria WoodSelf - Questioner
1987French & Saunders
1986Open Air
1979Question TimeHimself - Panellist
1978An Audience with...Self
-Have I Got a Bit More News for YouSelf - Panellist
Production
201942nd StreetExecutive Producer
1985Kane & AbelProducer