John Furse (director)
Encyclopedia
John Furse is a film and television director/writer/producer, son of Patrick and Elisabeth Furse
(see Furse (surname)
for family connections).
Elisabeth Furse
Elisabeth Furse was a Communist activist, World War II resistance escape route organizer, London bistro proprietress, and an early member of the Association of Cinematograph and Television Technicians ....
(see Furse (surname)
Furse (surname)
Furse is a Devon surname as well as one of several names for the evergreen shrub more widely known as Gorse. The name is believed to be derived from Old English: fyrse . the name is often compared to that of Furze that is also found in Cornwall....
for family connections).
Work
- Blind FlightBlind FlightBlind Flight is a 2004 British film, directed by John Furse, starring Ian Hart and Linus Roache. It is based on the true-life story of the kidnapping and imprisonment of the Irish academic Brian Keenan and the English journalist John McCarthy, two of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis...
, the true story of the hostage ordeal in Lebanon of journalist John McCarthyJohn McCarthy (journalist)John Patrick McCarthy CBE is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster, and one of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis...
and teacher Brian Keenan (cinema film, as director, screenwriter and executive producer) - Living On The Edge with director Michael GrigsbyMichael GrigsbyMichael Grigsby is an English documentary filmmaker.With a filmography spanning six decades and nearly 30 films, Grigsby occupies a unique position in British documentary filmmaking, having witnessed and commented on many of the dramatic changes in British society from the late 1950s through to...
(documentary film, as producer and co-deviser) - Looks That Kill with producer Roger GraefRoger GraefRoger Arthur Graef OBE is a criminologist and film-maker. Born in New York, he moved to Britain in 1962, where he has made ground-breaking documentary films with his ability to gain access to hitherto closed institutions, including Government ministries and court buildings.-Early life:Graef was...
(television documentary, as director and writer) - Helen BamberHelen BamberHelen Bamber OBE , is a psychotherapist who worked with Holocaust survivors in Germany after the concentration camps were liberated in 1945. In 1947, she returned to Britain and continued her work, helping to establish Amnesty International and later co-founding the Medical Foundation for Care of...
- On The Trail Of Torture (television documentary, as director and writer).
Further reading
- Flying Blind by John Furse in The Independent on Sunday on 4 April 2004.
- Michael Grigsby and John Furse in Interview and Film Review by Julian Petley on Monthly Film Bulletin, June 1987