Sunday Lunchtime Film Talk

2025 Topic

An interview with production designer Seamus Flannery

Irish-born Production Designer Seamus Flannery was educated at St Paul’s School in London and at the Ontario College of Art. As a commissioned officer in the British Army, he served with the 17^th Field Royal Artillery, the East Yorkshire and Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, and The London Irish Rifles. He worked as a miner in northern Canadian nickel mines and as a seaman on the Great Lakes.

He joined CBC TV and worked for eight years as a designer on light entertainment and current affairs productions, commercials, and one half-hour drama every three weeks. He returned to Great Britain for work with Granada TV and BBC TV designing entertainment spectaculars (e.g., Ella Fitzgerald) and dramatic productions (with the Royal Shakespeare Company and others). He was an Executive Producer with The Rank Organisation.

Seamus’s film credits include Roman Polanski’s Repulsion with Catherine Deneuve (1965), I’ll Never Forget What’s ’isname with Orson Welles and Oliver Reed (1967), The Wicker Man with Christopher Lee (1973), and Fly Away Home (a.k.a. Father Goose, 1996) which was filmed in Ontario. His TV credits (for CBS, NBC, ABC, CBC, CTV, Disney and others) include The Avengers, Danger Man, Night Heat, and Bethune with Kate Nelligan and Donald Sutherland.

Seamus Flannery is a Life Member of the Directors Guild of Canada. He currently resides in Port Hope with his wife Diane.

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