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RoryO'Shea

  • Cinematographer
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The son of legendary Pacific Films producer John O’Shea, Rory O’Shea made his mark as a camera operator and lighting cameraman of sensitivity and skill. His artistically-composed images complemented and enhanced the vision of key collaborators like directors Tony Williams and Barry Barclay.

Biography

Actor Wi Kuki Kaa summed up his late friend Rory O’Shea simply when he said “I never met anyone who didn’t like or get on with Rory” .

If there are some things surviving colleagues can agree on, it’s that O’Shea was a good bloke, a damned fine cameraman, and that maybe he drank a bit more than was good for him. 

Screenography

Blerta Revisited
2001 Camera Film
Breaking Barriers
1993 Subject Television
Te Rua
1991 Cinematography - Berlin Film
Never Say Die
1988 Cinematographer Film
Ngāti
1987 Cinematographer Film

Awards

1988 Listener Film and Television Awards
Nominated for Best Cinematography - Film: for Ngati

“I never met anyone who didn't like or get on with Rory.”

— Late actor Wi Kuki Kaa

Related images

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Barry Barclay and cinematographer Rory O’Shea on location in Nicaragua, for the 1985 documentary The Neglected Miracle.
Kindly supplied by The Dominion Post.