Brian Desmond Hurst
Born: February 12, 1895
From: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Brian Desmond Hurst

Brian Desmond Hurst was an Irish film director. With over thirty films in his filmography, Hurst was hailed as Northern Ireland's best film director by BBC film critic Mike Catto. He is perhaps best known for the 1951 A Christmas Carol adaptation Scrooge.

Films directed by Brian Desmond Hurst

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Scrooge (1951)
1951

Scrooge (released as A Christmas Carol in the United States) is a 1951 British Christmas fantasy drama film and an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge

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