Fred O'Donovan

Fred O'Donovan, born Frederick George Saunders in Dublin, joined the Abbey Theatre in 1908 under his stage name and became its director in 1917. He then made films for the first Irish production company, then worked for nearly twenty years on the London stage. Hired in 1938 by the BBC as one of its first directors of television drama, he directed more than sixty broadcasts there, in long takes without cuts. He died in London on 19 July 1952.

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• Feature filmKnocknagowFred O'Donovan · 1918Cinema