Robin Bextor (born 11 October 1953) is an English film and television producer and director. He is the father of the dance-pop singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor.[2]
Bextor directed Edward on Edward, a documentary in which Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh discussed King Edward VIII. Bextor then worked as director of programmes for Ardent, but left to pursue other projects.
Bextor also directed his daughter's DVD Watch My Lips. He has been director of the Chichester Festival for five years and a trustee of the Brighton theatre company Dream, Think, Speak.
Bextor has also had a successful career as a writer, writing for newspapers and magazines and the book to accompany the TV series Crown and Country. The relationships built working with Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton over many years led to the publication of Paul McCartney Now & Then in 2004,[2] and Eric Clapton Now & Then in 2006.[6] Bextor is also a director of Glyndebourne Productions in East Sussex.
In 2013, he directed a six-part TV series on London, with specials on the London Underground, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace. He also wrote The Story of the London Underground, published that same year. The following year, he produced and directed Glyndebourne: the Untold History for the BBC. He also wrote and directed a four-part music series, The Sound of the 60s, and a book of the series, published the same year. A second series, The Sound of the 70s, followed, as well as the series Historic Hauntings. He has made films on 10cc (Clever Clogs), Squeeze, Cara Dillon, the French band Air, and The Feeling, with Kiefer Sutherland. 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.
