Colin Finbow | |
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 Colin Finbow on location for "Doombeach" (1989) Photograph by Kit Ellis | |
| Born | (1940-11-26) 26 November 1940 |
| Occupations | film director screenwriter |
Colin Finbow (born 26 November 1940) is an English screenwriter and film director.
Life and career
He was studying at Ipswich College of Art and London's Goldsmiths College and made amateur films as a teenager.1 He submitted his first plays to radio2 and wrote for the stage.3
Finbow also was Head of English at London's Forest Hill Comprehensive School.1 In 1981 the Children's Film Unit was formed as a registered charity which he oversaw.4 It had begun life as the film studies department at Forest Hill School in South East London.
Selected filmography
- Something Wicked This Way Comes (1972) - Director
- The Custard Boys (1979) - Director/Screenplay
- Captain Stirrick (1982) - Director
- A Swarm in May (1983) - Director/Writer
- Dark Enemy (1984) - Director/Writer
- School for Vandals (1986) - Director/Writer/Editor
- Hard Road (1988) - Director
- Under the Bed (1988) - Director
- Doombeach (1989) - Director/Writer/Editor
- Survivors (1990) - Director
- How's Business (1991) - Director/Writer
- Emily's Ghost (1992) - Director/Writer
- The Higher Mortals (1993) - Director
- Willie's War (1994) - Director/Writer
- Nightshade (1995) - Director
- The Gingerbread House (1997) - Director
- Awayday (1997) (short) - Director
References
References
- Murphy, Robert (2019). Directors in British and Irish Cinema - A Reference Companion. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-83871-532-8.
- Ian Rodger (1982). Radio Drama. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-29428-4.
- New Radio Drama. British Broadcasting Corporation. 1966.
- The Oxford Handbook of Children's Film. Oxford University Press. 2022. ISBN 978-0-19-093935-9.