Biography
​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Hay (1964-) is an English film director who was born in Kolkata in India where his mother, Elizabeth Partridge, worked as a foreign correspondent for the News Chronicle. He returned to England and was raised in Sussex where he started making films at the age of twelve. He studied Film and Drama at the University of Reading where he was awarded a First for his quirky, comedic short about Bertrand Russell's meditative essay on a table. After leaving u...
Complete Filmography
Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis
2023
Director
Willem was an artist who lived openly as a gay man at a time when few did. Frieda was a well-connected musician who became the first woman to lead an ...
To Olivia
2021
Director, Writer
In 1962, Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl retreat to the English countryside to bring up their young family. The seemingly unlikely pair find their relati...
Lost Christmas
2011
Director, Writer
An Urban Fairy Tale set in Manchester. A story of how a series of tragic events, that blight a young boy's life on Christmas Eve, take him on a journe...
The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
2005
Director, Writer
Set in Colonial India in 1925, the hunt for the most notorious man-eating leopard of all time.
The Truth About Love
2005
Director
As part of a drunken bet with her sister Felicity, happily married Alice sends an anonymous Valentine's card to her husband Sam to see if he hides it....
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
2000
Director, Screenplay
Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new ...
Cause of Death
1997
Director
A QED drama special, based upon a real-life case of medical negligence. Within four days of being admitted to hospital with minor injuries, Ray Peters...
The Steal
1995
Director, Writer
A young American computer hackeress is hired by a liberal British lawyer to right the wrong done to a third world country by a London investment compa...