Stewart Till, CBE (born 1951) was the chairman and chief executive of

United International Pictures United International Pictures (UIP) is a joint venture of Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures that distributes their films outside the United States and Canada. UIP also had international distribution rights to certain Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M ...

from 2002 to 2006. He is a graduate of the

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. Till was deputy managing director of

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's movie channels and joined

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in January 1992 as President of its international distribution arm before joining Universal Pictures International (UPI), where he became president and one of the most important film people in London. He left UPI in 2000 and became chairman and chief executive at UIP. After leaving UIP, he was Chairman of Icon Productions UK and then became CEO of

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in 2012. In 1999, he was appointed vice chairman of the new

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. He became chairman after

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left. In July 2006 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the

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