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Jack O'Connell
Known for
Writing
Biography
Jack O'Connell was a film director, writer and producer. He was an overlooked pioneer of independent cinema, captured the zeitgeist of 60s America with Revolution, his iconic documentary of the San Francisco hippie counter-culture during the Summer of Love, 1967. Jack started out in spending 10 years in advertising. In 1959 he travelled to Italy to learn filmmaking in the spirit of Fellini and Antonioni.
Best known work
L'Avventura
1960
Revolution
1968
Swedish Fly Girls
1971
Greenwich Village Story
1963
The Hippie Revolution
1996Filmography
1996
The Hippie RevolutionWriter, Director
1971
Swedish Fly GirlsWriter, Producer, Director
1968
RevolutionDirector, Writer, Producer
1963
Greenwich Village StoryProducer, Writer, Director
1960
L'Avventuraas Old Man on the Island (uncredited), Second Assistant Director