Harry Hook (born 1960) is an English screenwriter, film/television director and photographer. Hook is best known for such films as ''
The Last of His Tribe
''The Last of His Tribe'' is a 1992 American television film, made-for-television drama (film and television), drama film based on the book ''Ishi in Two Worlds'' by Theodora Kroeber which relates the experiences of her husband Alfred L. Kroeber w ...
''
and the 1990 version of ''
Lord of the Flies''.
Career
Harry Hook's first feature film as writer/director, ''
The Kitchen Toto'', tells the story of Mwangi, a young Kikuyu boy, who works in the household of a white policeman during Kenya's struggle for independence.
Hook's other feature film credits include: ''
Lord of the Flies'', Columbia Pictures – an adaptation of William Golding's dystopian novel of boys stranded on a tropical island and their descent into savagery.
The Last of His Tribe
''The Last of His Tribe'' is a 1992 American television film, made-for-television drama (film and television), drama film based on the book ''Ishi in Two Worlds'' by Theodora Kroeber which relates the experiences of her husband Alfred L. Kroeber w ...
', HBO – starring Jon Voight and Graham Greene, tells the story of Ishi, the last survivor of the Yahi people, a tribe of Californian Indians. ''
St. Ives'' – a love story set in the Napoleonic War, starring Jean Marc Barr, Miranda Richardson, Richard E Grant, Anna Friel and Jason Isaacs.
Hook's credits as a TV director embrace drama and documentary: ''The Many lives of Albert Walker'' – a real life crime story; ''
Silent Witness
''Silent Witness'' is a British crime drama television series produced by the BBC, which focuses on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in 1996, the series was created by Nigel McC ...
'' – a forensic science crime drama BBC series; ''The Tragedy of Rudyard Kipling''; ''The Heart of Thomas Hardy'' and ''The Hidden Treasures of African Art''. On the documentary series ''Greatest Cities of the World'', Hook directed films on New York and Hong Kong. For ITV1, his has made ''People I have Shot'' and ''Brothers in Arms''.
Photography
In Photographing Africa, BBC4, Hook documents his own journey to East Africa in search of five nomadic women whose portraits he had made 30 years earlier.
The Royal Geographical Society awarded Hook the
Cherry Kearton Medal
The Cherry Kearton Medal and Award is an honour bestowed by the Royal Geographical Society on "a traveller concerned with the study or practice of natural history, with a preference for those with an interest in nature photography, art or cinemat ...
for 2017 for
‘original documentation of Africa through photography’.
Hook's large photographic book ''ABOUT AFRICA'', published in 2016, tells the visual story of Africa's migration from country to city over the course of more than 40 years.
Filmography
* ''
The Kitchen Toto'' (1987)
* ''
Lord of the Flies'' (1990)
* ''
The Last of His Tribe
''The Last of His Tribe'' is a 1992 American television film, made-for-television drama (film and television), drama film based on the book ''Ishi in Two Worlds'' by Theodora Kroeber which relates the experiences of her husband Alfred L. Kroeber w ...
'' (1992)
* ''Silent Witness'' (1996 - 2 episodes)
* ''
St. Ives'' (1998)
* ''The Many lives of Albert Walker'' (2002)
* ''Whiskey Echo'' (2005)
References
External links
*
Personal website
1960 births
Living people
English photographers
English screenwriters
English male screenwriters
English film directors
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