Colin Finbow
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Occupationsfilm director
screenwriter
screenwriter
Colin Finbow | |
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Colin Finbow on location for "Doombeach" (1989) Photograph by Kit Ellis | |
| Born | 26 November 1940 |
| Occupations | film director screenwriter |
Colin Finbow (born 26 November 1940) is an English screenwriter and film director.
He was studying at Ipswich College of Art and London's Goldsmiths College and made amateur films as a teenager.[1] He submitted his first plays to radio[2] and wrote for the stage.[3]
Finbow also was Head of English at London's Forest Hill Comprehensive School.[1] In 1981 the Children's Film Unit was formed as a registered charity which he oversaw.[4] It had begun life as the film studies department at Forest Hill School in South East London.