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Barney Platts-Mills (15 October 1944 – 5 October 2021) was a British film director, best known for his award-winning films, Bronco Bullfrog and Private Road. Biography
Barney Platts-Mills was born on 15 October 1944 in Colchester, Essex, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for Private Road (1971), Hero (1982) and Zohra: A Moroccan Fairy Tale (2010). He was married to Caroline Younger. He died on 5 October 2021 in the UK.
- Director, Writer, Editorial Department
- October 15, 1944
- Barney Platts-Mills
- October 5, 2021
Oct 6, 2021 · The British writer-director Barney Platts-Mills, who has died aged 76, seemed to be a new hope for independent British cinema in the 1970s. However, he directed just four feature films and a few documentaries while the rest of his career was taken up with other projects mostly encouraging young people into the film business.
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OBITUARY. Barney Platts-Mills obituary. Film director with egalitarian instincts whose best work Bronco Bullfrog was a cult chronicle of Sixties working-class life. Wednesday January 19 2022,...
Mar 23, 2022 · March 23, 2022. An auspicious first feature, Barney Platts-Mills’s “Bronco Bullfrog” fell between the cracks — a belated example of British “kitchen sink” naturalism that arrived in 1969 before...
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Sep 17, 2023 · Barney Platts-Mills' debut feature film, 'Bronco Bullfrog' is an authentic depiction of working-class youth culture in London's East End during the 1960s.
