Adrian Maben
British film and television director, writer, and producer (1942–2025)
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Adrian Maben (1942–2025) was a British film and television director, writer, and producer.[1][2]
30 June 1942
Adrian Maben | |
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Adrian Maben in Pompeii (2022) | |
| Born | Adrian Mitchell Maben 30 June 1942 Chippenham, Wiltshire, England |
| Died | 28 October 2025 (aged 83) Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France |
| Occupations | Film and television director, writer, and producer |
| Employer | ORTF |
| Known for | Film documentaries on music and art |
| Notable work | Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972) |
Maben directed a number of films and documentaries on music and art, in particular Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii in 1972, featuring the rock band Pink Floyd playing in the Roman amphitheatre at Pompeii.[3] He worked for the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) between 1970 and 1973. Maben directed the news programme Soir 3 on France 3. He was born British but obtained French nationality.
In 1991, he was a conference speaker along with the director Robert Altman and the composer Carl Stone, chaired by the film historian Michael Renov.[4] A director's cut of Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii was re-edited by Maben in 2003, with additional images of the Solar System.[5]
Maben made several documentary films on artists such as René Magritte (1978), Paul Delvaux (1987), and Hieronymus Bosch (2003), and the photographer Helmut Newton (1989).[1] In 2016, he held an exhibition at Pompeii in Italy.[6] He was described by David Gilmour as a "creative genius".
Filmography and television
Maben directed the following:[7][8][9]
- Opération Apollo[10] (1969)
- Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972)[11]
- Phonzeit (1975)
- Monsieur René Magritte (1978)[12][13]
- James Brown Soul Brother No. 1: The James Brown Story (1978)[14]
- Raoul Coutard in Étoiles et toiles (1982)
- Le petit théâtre de Bouvard (1982)
- Paul Delvaux: The Sleepwalker of Saint Idesbald (1987)[15]
- Le grand escalator (1987)
- Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge (1989)[16]
- A Window to Heaven (1990)[17]
- Riviera (1991)
- La case de l'oncle Doc (1997)
- The Khmer Rouge: Power and Terror (2001)[18]
- Ourasi, le roi fainéant (2003)
- All Hell Let Loose: The Demonic World of Hieronymus Bosch (2003)
- Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut) (2003)[5]
- The Making of Ça Ira (2005)
- Comrade Duch: The Bookkeeper of Death (2011)[19]
- Pink Floyd: Chit Chat with Oysters (2013)
