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John Hay is an English film director, writer and producer. [1] Career. After leaving university, he began directing for UK television, making dramas such as Looking Back and two adaptations of Heathcote Williams ' epic poems, Falling for a Dolphin and Autogeddon, which starred Academy Award -winner Jeremy Irons.
Director: To Olivia. John Hay read for a BA (Hons) in Film at Reading graduating with a Distinction for his Final Film. After leaving university he went on to get a number of assignments directing for British television.
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Director: To Olivia. John Hay read for a BA (Hons) in Film at Reading graduating with a Distinction for his Final Film. After leaving university he went on to get a number of assignments directing for British television. These included seminal dramatizations of two epic poems by Heathcote Williams.
Apr 14, 2022 · The director John Hay plumbs the poignancy well but avoids any tussling with Dahl’s legacy, tarnished by antisemitic statements. In 2020, Dahl’s family posted a public apology for the...
Feb 19, 2021 · To Olivia: Directed by John Hay. With Hugh Bonneville, Bobby O'Neill, Eve Prenelle, Michael Jibson. The story of the tumultuous marriage between actress Patricia Neal and renowned writer Roald Dahl.
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A masterpiece not least because of the way that Spielberg goes against the grain and gives it an extraordinary documentary quality that makes everything even more immediate and heart wrenching.
John Hay is an English film director who was born in Kolkata in India where his mother, Elizabeth Partridge, worked as a foreign correspondent for the News Chronicle. He returned to England and was raised in Sussex where he started making films at the age of twelve.
