Horace Ové
Directing
Born: 1939-01-01 · Trinidad
Died: 2023-09-16
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.
🎬 Movies (14)
James Baldwin Abroad
2023
Director
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
2020
Self – Director (archive footage, 1982)
Black and White in Colour
1992
Self
When Love Dies
1990
Director
Playing Away
1987
Director
The Garland
1981
Director
Stretch Hunter
1980
Director
A Hole in Babylon
1979
Director
Skateboard Kings
1978
Director
Pressure
1976
Director
The Mangrove Nine
1973
Associate Producer
King Carnival
1973
Director
Reggae
1971
Director
Baldwin's Nigger
1968
Director
