---
name: "Mike Gibbon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mike-gibbon"
fi1m_id: "mike-gibbon"
imdb_id: "nm0316516"
tmdb_id: 1227542
wikidata_id: "Q15460117"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "27 January 1942"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:27:34.120987+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Mike Gibbon

## Identity

Mike Gibbon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mike-gibbon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mike-gibbon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0316516
- **TMDB ID:** 1227542
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15460117
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gibbon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15460117, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316516/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1227542

Director. Born 27 January 1942 in Fulmer.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 27 January 1942, Fulmer
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gibbon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15460117, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316516/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1227542

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*EastEnders*](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Mike Gibbon is an English television director and producer. Born John Michael Gibbon on 27 January 1942 in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, he read English at King's College London.

He directed episodes of the BBC soap *EastEnders* from 1985 and served as its producer from 1988 to 1989. Earlier credits include directing 52 episodes of *Emmerdale Farm* (1979–1984) and work on series such as *Castaways* (1978) and *Within These Walls*. He married Moya McCarthy in 1976; they have one daughter.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *EastEnders* (1985), Fi1m 70, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *EastEnders* (1985), series, Director — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)
- *The Brack Report* (1982), series, Director
- *Intimate Strangers* (1974), series, Director
- *Thick as Thieves* (1974), series, Director

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