Robin Bextor

In May 2019, Bextor was selected and stood as an MEP candidate for The Independent Group for Change. He ran in the South East England constituency. Achieving 106,000 votes, he did not win the seat.

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. (GU2) The following year he produced and directed Glyndebourne:the Untold History (90 mins) for BBC TV. He also wrote and directed a four-part music series The Sound of the 60's, and a book of the series published the same year.A second series The Sound of the 70's followed, as well as a series on Historic Hauntings. He has made films on 10cc (Clever Clogs), Squeeze,Cara Dillon French band AIR and The Feeling with Keifer Sutherland. He also 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.

He has won the Columbus ("Chris") award for The British Schindler, shown on ITV in 2005, a BAFTA and the New York Film Festival best documentary award.

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, and Eric Clapton Now & Then in 2006. He is also a director of Glyndebourne Productions in East Sussex specialising in films about opera..

In the early 1990s, he became head of arts at TWI before joining the Man Alive group.

Robin Bextor (born 1953) is an English film and television producer and director. He is the father of the dance-pop singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor.