Director Peter Collinson, Richard Johnson, Dermot Breen and others
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Title
Director Peter Collinson, Richard Johnson, Dermot Breen and others
Subject
Cork Film Festival, Richard Johnson, Peter Collinson, Dermot Breen, Robert Monks
Description
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, with his distinctive sideburns, stares up at Johnson. In 1963 Collinson made the documentary The One-Nighters of the Royal Showband, with Brendan Bowyer, on tour. It was screened at the Cork Film Festival in 1963, receiving a Certificate of Merit. Following this Collinson went on to make Up the Junction (1967) and the now-legendary The Italian Job (1969) starring Michael Caine. Collinson also directed the war film The Long Day’s Dying (1968) starring the English actor David Hemmings who also came to the film festival in the 1970s. Around the time of this photo, dated 1971, Collinson has just finished the British thriller Straight On till Morning (1972) starring Shane Briant and John Clive, both of whom were in Cork for the film festival in the early 70s.
The Irish Film & Television Network (IFTN) site notes that Collinson (1936-1980) started out working as a senior floorman at RTÉ and was originally making a TV commercial for the Royal Showband, with cameraman Robert Monks, before persuading the band to commit to a documentary. Monks, who passed away in 2012, also worked with Cork-born Louis Marcus on his Award-nominated short films Páistí ag Obair (Children at Work) (1973) and Conquest of Light (1975). Monks began his film career working as a film technician with the Irish National Film Institute and continued to collaborate with them throughout his life. A highlight of his career is the documentary on Irish film production Memories in Focus (1996) with Peter Canning, which drew on the Liam O'Leary collection from the National Library.
The Irish Film & Television Network (IFTN) site notes that Collinson (1936-1980) started out working as a senior floorman at RTÉ and was originally making a TV commercial for the Royal Showband, with cameraman Robert Monks, before persuading the band to commit to a documentary. Monks, who passed away in 2012, also worked with Cork-born Louis Marcus on his Award-nominated short films Páistí ag Obair (Children at Work) (1973) and Conquest of Light (1975). Monks began his film career working as a film technician with the Irish National Film Institute and continued to collaborate with them throughout his life. A highlight of his career is the documentary on Irish film production Memories in Focus (1996) with Peter Canning, which drew on the Liam O'Leary collection from the National Library.
Creator
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival
Source
Cork Film Festival Collection
Publisher
University College Cork
Date
1971
Rights
This item is licenced with a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. All rights reserved. Please credit Cork International Film Festival & provide a link back to this site.
Format
Photo
TIFF
JPEG
TIFF
JPEG
Language
English, eng
Coverage
1971
Cork, Ireland
Cork, Ireland
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Photo
Physical Dimensions
245 x 195mm
Collection
Citation
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, “Director Peter Collinson, Richard Johnson, Dermot Breen and others,” Cork International Film Festival Archive, accessed December 21, 2024, https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/items/show/357.