Horace Ové
b. 1936 — d. 2023 (aged 87)
Trinidad
Director
Writer
Born in Trinidad in 1939, Horace Ové, CBE is 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).
Known For
Filmography
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The Ghost of Hing King Estate
2009 Director
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Hidden Empire: Calling London
1996 Actor
Inayat Khan
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Hidden Empire: Udham Singh
1996 Director
Writer
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★ 7.1
The Orchid House
1991 Director
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★ 6.2
4 Play
1989 Director
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★ 5.9
Playing Away
1987 Director
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Moving Portraits
1987 Director
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Good at Art
1983 Director
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The Latchkey Children
1980 Director
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★ 8.3
Empire Road
1978 Director
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★ 8.0
The Professionals
1977 Director
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★ 7.2
Pressure
1976 Director
Writer
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★ 5.3
Full House
1972 Director
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★ 7.0
Reggae
1971 Director
Writer
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★ 7.8
Play for Today
1970 Director
Writer
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★ 4.0
Review
1969 Director
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★ 7.5
Baldwin's Nigger
1968 Director
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★ 8.3
The World About Us
1967 Director
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The Art of the Needle
1966 Director