As Director, As Writer
Pressure
1976
6.0
Horace Ové
Directing
Born
January 1, 1939
Place of Birth
Trinidad
Deceased
September 16, 2023
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.
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