John Jeffrey Krish (4 December 1923 – 7 May 2016) was a British film director and screenwriter. He directed and filmed much archive footage and in particular Our School in 1962, showing the changing ways of Britain's school and the last few years of the 11-plus exam.[1]

Selected filmography

• General Election (1945) - editor
• The Elephant Will Never Forget short (1953)[2]
• Companions in Crime (1954)
• Captured (1959)
• Return To Life short (1960)[2] - writer, director and narrator
• They Took Us to the Sea (1961) - writer and director
• Our School (1962) - writer and director
• The Wild Affair (1963) - writer and director
• Unearthly Stranger (1963)
• I Think They Call Him John (1964) - writer and director
• Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968)
• The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970)
• Drive Carefully, Darling short (1975)[2] - director and co-writer
• The Finishing Line short (1977) [2] - director and co-writer
• Jesus (1979) - co-director
• Friend or Foe (1982)
• Out of the Darkness (1985) - writer, director and editor

References

External links

• John Krish at IMDb
• Imperial War Museum Interview
• BFI - In memoriam
• Obituary - Telegraph
• "The British Entertainment History Project | John Krish |". historyproject.org.uk.

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