Brian Grant

Brian Grant is a noted British music video and television director and producer, he co-founded MGMM Productions with Scott Millaney, Russell Mulcahy, and David Mallet He started his career as a cameraman and went to become a noted music video director, he also shot many movies and television series. He is famous for directing episodes of British television series including As If, Hex, Doctor Who, Party Animals, Sinchronicity, Britannia High, Highlander, Queen of Swords, Clocking Off, New Tricks. He has also directed many commercials and notable music videos through the 1980s for Olivia Newton-John, Donna Summer, Peter Gabriel, Queen, Tina Turner and Duran Duran.  His video for Olivia Newton-John's "Physical", won the 25th Annual Grammy Award for Best Video of the Year. He is best known for his work on the 1983 Donna Summer video "She Works Hard For The Money", the video would be nominated for MTV awards, and Donna Summer became the first Afro American Female Artist to get played in high rotation, at the then fledgling MTV station. The video remains a tribute to women around the world. He was also hired to direct her 1983 HBO concert "A Hot Summers Night...", after that he was in high demand as music video director. He also shot two of singer Whitney Houston's videos, "How Will I Know" (1985) and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" (1987).

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Camera Operator:
1974  A Killer With Two Faces

Director:
1974  A Killer With Two Faces
1982  Olivia Newton-John: Let's Get Physical
1983  A Hot Summer Night with Donna
1983  Olivia Newton-John: In Concert
1985  Video AID
1991  Love Kills
1991  Sweet Poison
1992  Darkman
1993  Complex of Fear
1994  Day of Reckoning
1994  Sensation
1995  The Immortals
1998  Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
1999  The Cyberstalking
2004  Gladiatress
2015  The Last Lennon Interview
2020  Lennon's Last Weekend
????  The Human League: The Very Best Of

Director of Photography:
1974  A Killer With Two Faces
1982  Olivia Newton-John: Let's Get Physical
1983  A Hot Summer Night with Donna
1983  Olivia Newton-John: In Concert
1985  Video AID
1991  Love Kills
1991  Sweet Poison
1992  Darkman
1993  Complex of Fear
1994  Day of Reckoning
1994  Sensation
1995  The Immortals
1998  Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
1999  The Cyberstalking
2004  Gladiatress
2015  The Last Lennon Interview
2020  Lennon's Last Weekend
????  The Human League: The Very Best Of

Editor:
1974  A Killer With Two Faces
1982  Olivia Newton-John: Let's Get Physical
1983  A Hot Summer Night with Donna
1983  Olivia Newton-John: In Concert
1985  Video AID
1991  Love Kills
1991  Sweet Poison
1992  Darkman
1993  Complex of Fear
1994  Day of Reckoning
1994  Sensation
1995  The Immortals
1998  Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
1999  The Cyberstalking
2004  Gladiatress
2015  The Last Lennon Interview
2020  Lennon's Last Weekend
????  The Human League: The Very Best Of

Title Designer:
1974  A Killer With Two Faces
1982  Olivia Newton-John: Let's Get Physical
1983  A Hot Summer Night with Donna
1983  Olivia Newton-John: In Concert
1985  Video AID
1991  Love Kills
1991  Sweet Poison
1992  Darkman
1993  Complex of Fear
1994  Day of Reckoning
1994  Sensation
1995  The Immortals
1998  Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
1999  The Cyberstalking
2004  Gladiatress
2015  The Last Lennon Interview
2020  Lennon's Last Weekend
????  The Human League: The Very Best Of

Writer:
1974  A Killer With Two Faces
1982  Olivia Newton-John: Let's Get Physical
1983  A Hot Summer Night with Donna
1983  Olivia Newton-John: In Concert
1985  Video AID
1991  Love Kills
1991  Sweet Poison
1992  Darkman
1993  Complex of Fear
1994  Day of Reckoning
1994  Sensation
1995  The Immortals
1998  Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
1999  The Cyberstalking
2004  Gladiatress
2015  The Last Lennon Interview
2020  Lennon's Last Weekend
????  The Human League: The Very Best Of

Creator:
2017  The Worst Witch

Director:
1983  The Hitchhiker
1992  Mann & Machine
1992  Red Shoe Diaries
1995  Bugs
1998  Highlander: The Raven
2000  Queen of Swords
2004  Hex
2004  New Tricks
2005  Doctor Who
2006  Sinchronicity
2007  Life Is Wild
2017  The Worst Witch

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