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Norman Cohen
Dublin, Ireland
Norman Cohen (11 June 1936 in Dublin – 26 October 1983 in Van Nuys, California) was an Irish film director and producer, best known for directing two feature films based on televi…
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Norman Cohen (11 June 1936 in Dublin – 26 October 1983 in Van Nuys, California) was an Irish film director and producer, best known for directing two feature films based on television comedy programmes, Till Death Us Do Part (1969) and Dad's Army (1971). He was also a director of several of the Confessions of... sex comedy series: Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975), Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976) and Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977). In addition to those films, he also produced as well as directed the adaptation of Spike Milligan's Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973),[1][2] and the comedy sequel Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977). Cohen's first film production was The London Nobody Knows (1967) narrated by James Mason and his final film was Burning Rubber (1981). In the Fall of 1982 he directed his only stage production; Woody Allen's "Play It Again, Sam" at Theatr Clwyd (National Theatre of Wales). The cast included; Nic d'avirro, Julia St. John, Julie Richmond, Sara Mason, Carl Davis, Jennifer Franks, and starred Trent Richards (aka Richard Trent) as Allen. The production later toured to Cardiff, Wales where it ran at the Sherman Theatre. Norman died after suffering a heart attack in 1983.
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2002
New York at the Movies
Movie Producer
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1985
The Lion's Share
Movie Writer
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1981
Burning Rubber
Movie Director
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1981
The Funhouse
Movie First Assistant Director
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1981
Thin Ice
Movie Producer
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1977
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
Movie Director
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1977
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
Movie Director
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1976
Confessions of a Driving Instructor
Movie Director
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1975
Confessions of a Pop Performer
Movie Director
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1974
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
Movie Executive Producer
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1973
Hail
Movie Executive Producer
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1973
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
Movie Director
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1973
Paganini Strikes Again
Movie Supervising Editor
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1971
Dad's Army
Movie Director
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1969
Till Death Us Do Part
Movie Director
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1968
The London Nobody Knows
Movie Director
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1968
Look at Life: There Ought to Be a Law
Movie Director
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1966
Brendan Behan's Dublin
Movie Director
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1964
London in the Raw
Movie Director
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1964
Delayed Flight
Movie Editor
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1963
Breath of Life
Movie Producer
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1962
Four People: A Ballad Film
Movie Editor
