This is a black and white group photo of five festival guests chatting informally at a drinks reception. The photo only identifies festival friend Eddie Nolan and ‘Scottish actor – middle’. Nolan (1940-2013) was a managing director for the Ford Motor…
This is a black and white photo, taken during the 1980s, of the sculptor Patrick O’Sullivan in conversation with festival director Robin O’Sullivan. Patrick O’Sullivan is sitting on Robin O’Sullivan’s desk who is looking up at him as they talk. A…
This is a black and white photo of the actors John Clive, Pamela Stephenson and Nicholas Ball in a photo dated 1970. All three are facing the camera smiling. Clive and Ball wear a festival ribbon pinned to their jackets and we also notice how the…
This is a black and white photo of the English actor Judy Geeson with Robin O’Sullivan and an unidentified colleague. Blond-haired Geeson, wearing a white lace evening dress and holding a bouquet of flowers, looks at the camera as she leaves the…
This is a black and white photo of the Irish actor David Kelly with festival director Dermot Breen, Jim O’Brien, and an unidentified companion. The small group are arriving into the marble lobby of the Imperial Hotel on the South Mall in Cork. Kelly,…
This is a black and white photo of Miss Movie Girl 1973, Betty Philbin, taken at the airport. Philbin, wearing a white suit accessorised with large sunglasses, and surrounded by her luggage, is accompanied by her sister, also in similarly large…
This is a black and white photo, dated 1971, of festival attendees including English film director Peter Collinson, actor Richard Johnson, festival director Dermot Breen and others unidentified. The group all smile for the camera while Collinson,…
This is a black and white photo of sisters Ann and Vicki Michelle posing with Westropp Irvine from the Player and Wills tobacco company in Ireland. Player and Wills were friends of the film festival and supported it on occasion with a development…
This is a black and white photo of the English actor Jane Asher and a guest identified as Brian Wakefield from Harrogate in Yorkshire. They are both standing in front of a promotional poster for the Harp Lager-sponsored Cork Film Festival and smiling…
This is a black and white photo of film critic John Stapleton and actor Harry Towb with the harpist Deirdre O’Callaghan. The convivial group are at the festival club, standing in front of a poster advertising the French-Belgian film Rendezvous at…