Adrian Maben
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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) |
Adrian Maben (1942–2025) was a British film and television director, writer, and producer.[1][2]
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".
