Gerry O'Hara
Gerry O'Hara (born October 1924, Boston, Lincolnshire)[1] 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. During the 1960s, he directed episodes of The Avengers and a film based on a Van Der Valk novel by Nicolas Freeling, Amsterdam Affair.
O'Hara directed the highly controversial[citation needed] and rarely seen film The Brute.
O'Hara directed and wrote the screenplay for the 1979 film, The Bitch,[2] an adaptation of the Jackie Collins novel.
Later television credits include directing and writing episodes of The Professionals, script editor for the ITV series C.A.T.S. Eyes and directing an episode of Press Gang.
Selected filmography[]
- That Kind of Girl (1963)
- Game for Three Losers (1965)
- The Pleasure Girls (1965)
- Maroc 7 (1967)
- Amsterdam Affair (1968)
- All the Right Noises (1971)
- The Chairman's Wife (1971)
- Journey to Murder (1971)
- The Spy's Wife (1972)
- (1973)
- Professor Popper's Problem (1974)
- Feelings (1975)
- (1977)
- (1977)
- Leopard in the Snow (1978)
- The Bitch (1979)
- Fanny Hill (1983)
- (1993)
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- English film directors
- English screenwriters
- English male screenwriters
- English television directors
- 1924 births
- Living people
- People from Boston, Lincolnshire
- Director stubs