Gerry O'Hara

GERRY O'HARA began his career as a cub reporter on a provincial newspaper at the age of fourteen. When Michael Powell brought his film unit to town to film scenes for the war-time movie ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING, Gerry followed them back to London and began a second career which lasted some fifty years. He was assistant director on films as diverse as OLD MOTHER RILEY AT HOME to Olivier's RICHARD THE THIRD: from THE LOYAL HEART, starring FLEET the sheepdog to Preminger's EXODUS. From...See more

GERRY O'HARA began his career as a cub reporter on a provincial newspaper at the age of fourteen. When Michael Powell brought his film unit to town to film scenes for the war-time movie ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING, Gerry followed them back to London and began a second career which lasted some fifty years. He was assistant director on films as diverse as OLD MOTHER RILEY AT HOME to Olivier's RICHARD THE THIRD: from THE LOYAL HEART, starring FLEET the sheepdog to Preminger's EXODUS. From STRYKER OF THE YARD to Tony Richardson's TOM JONES. In the mid-sixties he made his debut as a screen writer and director of several critically acclaimed (and panned!) movies before moving into television, writing or directing episodes of T.V. classics like THE AVENGERS and THE PROFESSIONALS. He wrote the adaptation of the book, OPERATION JULIE, which was aired on three consecutive nights, a first for U.K.TV, with a nightly audience of thirteen million viewers. He has taught film writing at film schools in London, Sydney and Llublyana. The British Film Institute have recently released several of his films on DVD, according him cult status for his 1969 movie ALL THE RIGHT NOISES, starring Tom Bell, Olivia Hussey and Judy Carne. His first film as writer/director, THE PLEASURE GIRLS starring Francesca Annis, Ian Mcshane and Klaus Kinski has been taught in film schools in the USA. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE AFFAIR IN TRANSYLVANIA is his first book. He has plans for a couple of follow-ups, a Chandler style thriller, and a biography. See less