Directors UK

Biography

Brian Desmond Hurst is Northern Ireland's greatest film director, celebrated in the Hurst Sound Stage in Belfast’s Titanic Studios. He’s also, arguably, one of the UK’s greatest war film directors. Work includes the perennial favourite Scrooge starring Alastair Sim, Theirs is the Glory, regularly rated one of the greatest war films ever made, Dangerous Moonlight (which introduced the Warsaw Concerto to the world) and Ourselves Alone (a film about The Irish War of Independence banned in Northern Ireland for many years). His on-screen debut was in 1928 alongside John Wayne in the silent era of Hollywood before moving behind the camera. His career was bookended with his adaptations of the J M Synge plays, Riders to the Sea (1935) and Playboy of the Western World (1962).

Credits

Playboy Of The Western World

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1962

His And Hers

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1961

Behind The Mask

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1958

Dangerous Exile

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1957

Black Tent, The

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1956

Simba

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1955

Malta Story, The

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1953

Scrooge

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1951

Trottie True

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1949

Mark Of Cain, The

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1947

Hungry Hill

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1946

Men Of Arnhem

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1946

Hundred Pound Window, The

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1944

Letter From Ulster, A

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1943

Alibi

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1942

Dangerous Moonlight

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1941

Miss Grant Goes To The Door

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1940

Call For Arms, The

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1940

On The Night Of The Fire

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1939

Lion Has Wings, The

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1939

Prison Without Bars

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1938

Glamorous Night

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1937

Ourselves Alone

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1936

Tenth Man, The

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1936

Sensation

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1936

Riders To The Sea

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1935

Tell-Tale Heart, The

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1934

Irish Hearts

1 episode

Series		Role	Year
-		Director	1934

Awards

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