John Irvin

John Irvin (b. 1940, Newcastle-upon-Tyne) started out in the 1960s making television documentaries with his own company Mikras Films. A number of his films during this period received awards, notably the documentary Mafia No! (a Silver Lion at the Venice Festival in 1967). In the 1970s he worked for the ITV television company and the BBC – for example on the series The Nearly Man (1974), Hard Times (1977), and the series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979), based… (több)