John O'Shea and Roger Mirams

John Dempsey O'Shea was born in New Plymouth on 20 June 1920, into a family of Irish Catholic descent, and grew up in Whanganui. A graduate of Victoria University College and of Christchurch Teachers' College, he served as an ambulance driver in the Pacific and in Italy during the war. With Roger Mirams, he turned Pacific Films into an independent production company, which he ran for more than twenty years and where young filmmakers trained; there in 1974 he oversaw the series Tangata Whenua. Made an OBE in 1990, he died in Wellington on 8 July 2001.

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• CinemaBroken BarrierJohn O'Shea and Roger Mirams · 1952Cinema