
Michael Grade
Department: Acting
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

Frost on Sketch Shows
2013

The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse
2011

The Trial of Jack The Ripper
2002

The Real Tom Thumb: History's Smallest Superstar
2014

Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
2011

Best Ever Bond
2002

The Story of Music Hall
2011

Burt Bacharach - A Life in Song
2016

Goodbye Television Centre
2013

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016

The Fight for Saturday Night
2014

An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988

Trials and Tribulations
2008

Golazzo: The Football Italia Story
2018

Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes
2021

Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
2008

Stanley Baxter: Now and Then
2008

Being Stanley Baxter
2025

This is Stanley Baxter
2001

The Many Faces of Stanley Baxter
2013

Jonathan Creek
1997

Room 101
1994

Open Air
1986

The Story of Variety with Michael Grade
2011

An Audience with...
1978

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022

Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story
2022

Have I Got a Bit More News for You
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A Life on Screen
2014

Days That Shook the BBC with David Dimbleby
2022

Morecambe & Wise in America
2018

Question Time
1979

French & Saunders
1987

Have I Got News for You
1990

Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland
2018