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Jack O'Connell

EN, DA, IT cinema · 5 credits

Born

2 May 1923

Died

20 July 2019 (aged 96)

Jack O'Connell was a film director, writer and producer. He was an overlooked pioneer of independent cinema, captured the zeitgeist of 60s America with Revolution, his iconic documentary of the San Francisco hippie counter-culture during the Summer of Love, 1967. Jack started out in spending 10 years in advertising. In 1959 he travelled to Italy to learn filmmaking in the spirit of Fellini and Antonioni.

Known for

Filmography

The Hippie Revolution poster

The Hippie Revolution

EN · 199610.0

Director, Writer

Swedish Fly Girls poster

Swedish Fly Girls

DA · 19714.9

Director, Writer, Producer

Revolution poster

Revolution

EN · 19684.8

Director, Writer, Producer

Greenwich Village Story poster

Greenwich Village Story

EN · 19637.0

Director, Writer, Producer

L'Avventura poster

L'Avventura

IT · 19607.5

as Old Man on the Island (uncredited), Second Assistant Director