Brian Desmond Hurst
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Emerging from a Belfast working-class family, Hurst left school for the front lines of World War I before receiving a government grant that took him to Canada, where he studied at the Toronto College of Art and later apprenticed under John Ford, absorbing set-management skills and even appearing as an extra in Ford’s Hangman’s House. Returning to the UK, he directed early Irish titles such as Ride…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
