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Denis O'Brien
International lawyer and banker and former business manager for George Harrison who formed HandMade Films with the ex-Beatle in 1978. The successful production and distribution company has been responsible for a number of quality films, many with a typically English stamp; acclaimed HandMade products include several "Monty Python" films, beginning with "Life of Brian" (1979), Neil Jordan's "Mona Lisa" (1986) and Bruce Robinson's "Withnail & I" (1986). Denis O'Brien died on December 3, 2021 in Swindon, United Kingdom at the age of 80.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42% |
|
Nuns on the Run | Executive Producer | $9.7M | 1990 |
| 63% |
|
How to Get Ahead in Advertising | Executive Producer | $355.2K | 1989 |
| 20% |
|
Checking Out | Executive Producer | $12.7K | 1989 |
| 63% |
|
Track 29 | Executive Producer | $19.3K | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Powwow Highway | Executive Producer | $71.2K | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Raggedy Rawney | Executive Producer | - | 1988 |
| 92% |
|
Withnail and I |
Executive Producer, Production Design |
- | 1987 |
| 78% |
|
Five Corners | Executive Producer | $305.4K | 1987 |
| 20% |
|
Shanghai Surprise | Executive Producer | $2.2M | 1986 |
| 0% |
|
Water | Executive Producer | - | 1985 |
| 90% |
|
A Private Function | Executive Producer | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl | Executive Producer | - | 1982 |
| 100% |
|
The Missionary | Executive Producer | - | 1982 |
| 91% |
|
Time Bandits | Executive Producer | - | 1981 |
| 97% |
|
The Long Good Friday | Executive Producer | - | 1980 |
| 96% |
|
Life of Brian | Executive Producer | $150.2K | 1979 |