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Horace Ové
Trinidad
Born in Trinidad in 1939, Sir Horace Ové, CBE was a British director, writer and artist who emerged in the late '60s and throughout the '70s to become one of the leading UK based…
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Born in Trinidad in 1939, Sir Horace Ové, CBE was a British director, writer and artist who emerged in the late '60s and throughout the '70s to become one of the leading UK based black independent film-makers. A fact notable for his Guinness World Record for being the first black British film-maker to direct a feature-length film, Pressure (1975). He was knighted in 2022 and passed away in 2023 following a battle with Alzheimer's.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2023
James Baldwin Abroad
Movie Director
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2020
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
Movie Self – Director (archive footage, 1982)
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1992
Black and White in Colour
Movie Self
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1991
The Orchid House
TV show Director
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1990
When Love Dies
Movie Director
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1989
4 Play
TV show Director
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1987
Playing Away
Movie Director
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1981
The Garland
Movie Director
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1980
The Latchkey Children
TV show Director
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1980
Stretch Hunter
Movie Director
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1979
A Hole in Babylon
Movie Director
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1978
Empire Road
TV show Director
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1978
Skateboard Kings
Movie Director
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1977
The Professionals
TV show Director
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1976
Pressure
Movie Director
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1973
The Mangrove Nine
Movie Associate Producer
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1973
King Carnival
Movie Director
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1972
Full House
TV show Director
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1971
Reggae
Movie Director
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1970
Play for Today
TV show Director
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1969
Review
TV show Director
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1968
Baldwin's Nigger
Movie Director
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1967
The World About Us
TV show Director
