Horace Ové

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-01-01 (84 years old)

Deathday

2023-09-16

Place of Birth

Trinidad

Horace Ové

Biography

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.

Acting

Production

1976

Pressure

as Director

1976

Pressure

as Screenplay

1968

Baldwin's Nigger

as Director

1987

Playing Away

as Director

1971

Reggae

as Director

1979

1973

The Mangrove Nine

as Associate Producer

2023

1978

Skateboard Kings

as Director

1979

1980

Stretch Hunter

as Director

1971

Reggae

as Producer

1990

When Love Dies

as Director

1973

King Carnival

as Director

1981

The Garland

as Writer

1981

The Garland

as Director

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