James Quinn (film administrator)
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James Quinn (film administrator)
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James Charles Frederick Quinn, was a British film administrator, producer and exhibitor. During World War II he was a Major in the Intelligence Unit of the Irish Guards in North Africa. He was educated at Rockport School in Holywood, Co Down. He was best known as one of the longest-serving Directors of the British Film Institute (1955–1964). Under his leadership, the BFI inaugurated the new National Film Theatre under Waterloo Bridge in London (1957), launched the London Film Festival (1957), ad
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British film festival founder
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2023-04-10T12:05:42Z
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