Original upload date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 16:45:35 GMT
Promotional clip. To learn more about this clip and its creators, please visit http://www.mayafair.ca/?page_id=34.
Filmmakers; Elisabeth Feryn and Lesley Walker-Fitzpatrick
Editor: Joe Weedick an
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d Alan Gough
Thanks to all the fight directors and actors who gave interviews.
Young when the world of film making was young, Paddy, as he was affectionately known, lived in this wild new era as actor, swashbuckler and fight director. His life story is intertwined with the history of film and theatre in the twentieth century; his life threads woven with memories of Lawrence Olivier, John Gielgud, Alec Guiness, Douglas Fairbanks and Audrey Hepburn among many others and of course Errol Flynn for whom he was fight choreographer and fight double. His memories lead us on a journey from the elegance of the Edwardian era of pre-World War One London through Ireland, Italy and finally to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada where in 1962 he took on the duties of fencing master and fight director.
