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O'Hara was born in Boston, Lincolnshire on 1 October 1924, [2] to James O'Hara, a bookmaker, and Jeannie O’Hara (née Beamont). [3] In the 1940s and 1950s he had an active and varied career as an assistant director for dozens of British films including Richard III (1955), Our Man in Havana (1959) and Tom Jones (1963).
Gerry O'Hara (1924-2023) Gerry O'Hara. Second Unit Director or Assistant Director. Director. Writer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Gerry O'Hara got his film-making break while working as a reporter for the Boston Guardian. Whilst writing for the newspaper, he was sent to interview Michael Powell who was filming One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing in ...
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- October 1, 1924
Gerry O'Hara. Second Unit or Assistant Director: Tom Jones. Gerry O'Hara got his film-making break while working as a reporter for the Boston Guardian. Whilst writing for the newspaper, he was sent to interview Michael Powell who was filming One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing in the local area.
- October 1, 1924
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Mar 15, 2023 · Gerry O’Hara, who has died aged 98, helped to reboot Joan Collins’s screen career when he directed her in The Bitch; though panned by critics, who regarded it as little more than softcore porn ...
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Gerry O'Hara (born 1924) is an English film and television director. O'Hara was an assistant director on Laurence Olivier's film, Richard III; the Carol Reed film, Our Man in Havana and the Academy Award-winning Tom Jones. O'Hara's directorial debut was the 1963 cautionary tale That Kind of Girl, about the dangers of contracting venereal disease.
Gerry O’Hara is a true original, and if he never really got the chance to definitively climb out of the ranks of assistant directors into the realm of full-fledged feature directors, he nevertheless managed to carve out a solid career in the cinema working with such luminaries as Sir Laurence Olivier, Ronald Neame, Michael Powell, Sir Carol Reed, Anatole Litvak, Ken Annakin, Terence Fisher ...
Director, Writer "A writer who did a bit of directing" is Gerry O'Hara's modest description of his 50-year career in film and television. While many found the industry an unforgiving place, O'Hara had more than his share of ups and downs: from the highs of learning the craft of directing on set with Laurence Olivier, Carol Reed and Otto Preminger, to the disastrous shoot of Maroc 7 (1966 ...
