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name: "John M. Hull"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-m-hull"
fi1m_id: "john-m-hull"
tmdb_id: 1643917
roles: []
born: "22 April 1935"
died: "28 July 2015"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-02T23:32:23.043292+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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# John M. Hull

## Identity

John M. Hull

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-m-hull
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-m-hull
- **TMDB ID:** 1643917
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1643917

Crew. Born 22 April 1935 in Victoria, Australia. Died 28 July 2015.

## Details

- **Born:** 22 April 1935, Victoria, Australia
- **Died:** 28 July 2015
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1643917

## Biography

John M. Hull was an Australian-born theologian, writer and academic. He became totally blind in 1980 after years of deteriorating vision and kept an audio diary of the experience that formed the basis of his 1990 book *Touching the Rock* (later reissued as *Notes on Blindness*). The 2016 documentary of the same name uses his original recordings, in which he is heard as himself.

Hull was born in Corryong, Victoria, in 1935. He studied in Australia and at Cambridge before settling in the United Kingdom, where he became the first professor of religious education at the University of Birmingham in 1989. He continued to teach and write on religious education, practical theology and disability after losing his sight, and died in Birmingham in 2015.

*Sources: nytimes.com, en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, johnmhull.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Notes on Blindness* (2016), Fi1m 80, as Himself (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/notes-on-blindness.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Notes on Blindness* (2016), Thanks — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/notes-on-blindness.md)

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