Jim O'Brien

Jim O'Brien (15 February 1947 – 13 February 2012) was a Scottish-born television and stage director.

Born in Dundee, his mother worked as a jute weaver while his father was a building labourer with Communist sympathies, his family relocated to South London when O'Brien was two. Leaving Beaufoy's Boys' School in Lambeth at 15 without qualifications, he worked in casual jobs and became interested in acting. He trained as an actor at the Guildhall School and later as a film and television director at the National Film and Television School (NFTS), in the early 1970s. "I was interested in the scale of the arena, the scale of story telling", he said later.

The feature film The Dressmaker (1988) is based on novel by Beryl Bainbridge and set in Liverpool during the second world war.

O'Brien married Christine Hauch in 1972; the couple had two sons.

Other credits The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ("Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal", TV, 1992)