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name: "Gerry O'Hara"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gerry-ohara"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 October 1924"
died: "9 January 2023"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:15:51.002393+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Gerry O'Hara

Director. Born 1 October 1924 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, UK. Died 9 January 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 October 1924, Boston, Lincolnshire, England, UK
- **Died:** 9 January 2023
- **Active:** 1961–1981
- **Also known as:** Gerald O'Hara
- **Frequently works with:** [Brian Clemens](https://film.one/person/brian-clemens.md), [Dennis Spooner](https://film.one/person/dennis-spooner.md), [Don Leaver](https://film.one/person/don-leaver.md), [Jeremy Burnham](https://film.one/person/jeremy-burnham.md), [Robert Banks Stewart](https://film.one/person/robert-banks-stewart.md), [Robert Tronson](https://film.one/person/robert-tronson.md), [Terence Feely](https://film.one/person/terence-feely.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5552948, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0110133/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/45430

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*The Avengers*](https://film.one/tv/the-avengers-1961.md) (83)

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## Biography

Gerald O'Hara (1 October 1924 – 9 January 2023) was a British film and television director and writer. Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, he began his career in the 1940s as an assistant director on numerous British productions, including *Richard III* (1955), *Our Man in Havana* (1959) and *Tom Jones* (1963).

His directorial debut was *That Kind of Girl* (1963). He directed episodes of *The Avengers* in 1965 and 1966, and later directed and wrote the screenplay for *The Bitch* (1979). Television credits include directing and writing episodes of *The Professionals* (1979) and writing an episode of *Bergerac* (1981). Other films include *Amsterdam Affair* (1968) and *The Brute* (1977). His final directing credit was *The Mummy Lives* (1993).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, telegraph.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Avengers* (1961), Fi1m 83, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-avengers-1961.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Bergerac* (1981), Writer

## Also known for

- *Tom Jones* (1963), Assistant Director
- *Anastasia* (1956), Assistant Director
- *Our Man in Havana* (1960), Assistant Director
- *Richard III* (1955), Assistant Director
- *The Man Who Never Was* (1956), Assistant Director
- *The Cardinal* (1963), Assistant Director
- *Ten Little Indians* (1989), Screenplay
- *The Professionals* (1977), Writer, Director

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