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Mike Dibb

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Mike Dibb (born Wharfedale, Bradford, West Yorkshire, 29 April 1940) is an English documentary filmmaker. In almost half a century of making films mainly for television – on subjects including cinema, literature, art, jazz, sport and popular culture – "he has defined and re-defined not only the televisual art documentary genre but has been able to make moving image pieces as a form of self portraiture". Dibb has made many acclaimed films, including on Federico García Lorca, C. L. R. James, Astor Piazzolla, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Barbara Thompson and other notable subjects. In the words of Sukhdev Sandhu in The Guardian: "In a career spanning almost five decades, it's possible Dibb has shaped more ideas and offered more ways of seeing than any other TV documentarian of his generation." Mike Dibb is the father of film director Saul Dibb.

Known For

Ways of Seeing

75%

Director

1972

Edward Said: The Last Interview

70%

Director

2004

Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema

73%

Director

1995

Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation

38%

Director

2005

The Miles Davis Story

70%

Director

2001

Appalachian Journey

83%

Producer

1991

About Time

55%

Director

1985

Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time

Writer

2012

John Berger or The Art of Looking

52%

Self

2016

Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time

Writer

2012

Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time

Director

2012

Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall

Director

2009

Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation

38%

Director

2005

Edward Said: The Last Interview

70%

Director

2004

The Miles Davis Story

70%

Director

2001

Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema

73%

Director

1995

The Further Adventures of Don Quixote

Director

1995

A Telling Eye: The Work of John Berger

Director

1994

Appalachian Journey

83%

Producer

1991

American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America

Director

1990

American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America

Producer

1990

The Spirit of Lorca

Director

1986

Studs Terkel's Chicago

Director

1985

Studs Terkel's Chicago

Producer

1985

About Time

55%

Director

1985

CLR James Talking to Stuart Hall

Director

1984

Parting Shots from Animals

Director

1980

Pig Earth

Producer

1979

Pig Earth

Director

1979

The Country and the City

Director

1979

The Country and the City

Producer

1979

Beyond a Boundary

Producer

1976

Beyond a Boundary

Director

1976

Paul Newman

Producer

1973

Bette Davis

Director

1972

Kirk Douglas

Producer

1972

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