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Filmmaker · Jamaica

Perry Henzell

Died in 2006

Perry Henzell was born on 7 March 1936 in the parish of Saint Mary and grew up on the Caymanas sugar plantation, where his father was the manager. A pupil at Shrewsbury in England and then at McGill University in Montreal, he worked as a studio hand at BBC television before returning to Jamaica in 1959, where his company, Vista, shot hundreds of advertising films. In 1972 he directed the first feature film shot and produced on the island, published a novel in 1982, and showed only in 2006 a second film begun in 1974. He died on 30 November 2006 in the parish of Saint Elizabeth.

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