Tom Hayes

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Tom Hayes (born May 13, 1926 in Oola, County Limerick , † November 23, 2008 ) was an Irish film producer , director and screenwriter who was nominated for an Oscar in 1962 .

Origin, career and death

Hayes was born in 1926 as the tenth of eleven children of Morgan Hayes and Kathleen Kennedy. He was trained in an all-boys school in Tipperary and by the Cistercians at Mount St Joseph, a Trappist abbey, in Roscrea . He attended Clonliffe College in Dublin and completed an art degree at UCD , which he graduated in 1947. He then tried his hand at acting and joined a fit-up group that toured Ireland. In London he played under the direction of Joan Littlewood at the Theater Royal Stratford East and taught English at a ballet school. In Paris he performed with Cyril Cusack and Siobhán McKenna at the Sarah Bernhardt Theater while he lived in the Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company . He also taught at a Swiss boys' graduation school for a brief period, then returned to London, where he teamed up with Jim O'Connor to put Irish film on the map, as he put it. To finance his first film, he worked as a taxi driver in Ireland. Hayes was a member of the Irish Film Industry Committee in the 1960s, chaired by John Huston, and a decade later a founding member of the Film Industry Section of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union .

He met Anna O'Brien in 1961 and graduated with a Higher diploma in 1962. He then flew with Anna O'Brien to Nsukka in Nigeria , where he taught English, math and choral singing. During their three-year stay there, they had two children.

On the occasion of his death in 2008, The Irish Times described Hayes as a brilliant filmmaker and a tireless advocate of the Irish film industry. Tom Hayes left behind his wife Anna, two daughters and three sons.

Later film career

Hayes was able to record the greatest success of his film career with his first film, Cradle of Genius , released in 1961 , an Oscar nomination. In the film, which he produced together with Jim O'Connor , the history of the Abbey Theater , the Irish national theater in Dublin , is retraced. However, the Oscar went to Frank P. Bibas and the film Project Hope , which deals with the maiden voyage of the hospital ship "SS Hope".

Hayes continued his film career with O'Donoghue's Opera , Ireland's first musical film, a mock opera , in 1965. The film is inspired by the British music and costume film The Beggar's Opera , based on the Dublin ballad The Night that Larry was Stretched . Due to financial difficulties, the film was premiered in a partially modified form in 1998.

For his 1970 short film drama Speed ​​Easy , Hayes took over the direction, wrote the screenplay and produced the film, which is all about a motorcycle. In the film Lovespell , which he produced , the classic Arthurian story is taken up. Richard Burton and Kate Mulgrew were in the lead roles. The two-hour Irish drama Anne Devlin is booked for Hayes as his last work as a producer. The story of the title heroine, played by Brid Brennan , who was involved in the 1803 uprising of the Irish under Robert Emmett , is told from a female point of view. Directed by Irish filmmaker Pat Murphy.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1961: Cradle of Genius (documentary short film, producer)
  • 1961: Progress Reported (producer)
  • 1970: Speed ​​Easy (short film, director, producer, author)
  • 1970: Ballymun (documentary short film, director)
  • 1974: Bodhrán (documentary short film, director)
  • 1981: Lovespell (producer)
  • 1984: Anne Devlin (producer)
  • 1998: O'Donoghue's Opera (director of production on the original 1965 version)

Awards

Academy Awards 1962

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 34th Academy Awards | 1962 see page oscars.org (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ingenious film-maker and tireless advocate of the Irish film industry In: The Irish Times , November 29, 2008. Accessed February 9, 2020.
  3. ↑ Love Spell Fig. Movie poster in the IMDb.
  4. ^ Anne Devlin ill. Film poster in the IMDb.
  5. ↑ O'Donoghue's Opera In: The Irish Times, February 28, 1998 (English). Retrieved February 9, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Hayes, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish film producer, film director and screenwriter, film and stage actor and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Oola, County Limerick , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 2008