Thomas P. O'Connor

Thomas P. O'Connor (AKA Thomas Patrick O'Connor) has written and produced over 50 documentaries and teleplays for broadcast, several of which have won major awards. Professor O'Connor has traveled widely for his productions-throughout Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Mexico. His film "Fatima" was the first nationwide documentary shown in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989. His film "Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene," a biopic about the famed British author premiered nationally in prime time on PBS in 2013. It has since been broadcast in more than 23 foreign countries, and PBS Home Video has released an expanded version on DVD. Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi (Gladiator) with voice-over by Bill Nighy (Love Actually), and appearances by author John le Carré ("Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy") actors Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and many others. The documentary uses Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the man about whom Time magazine's Paul Gray wrote: "No serious writer of the twentieth century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than Graham Greene." Professor O'Connor often is the on-camera host/reporter for many of his television productions. He is also a classically trained actor (RADA) who has played numerous roles on stage and small roles in short films. O'Connor is working on a new feature film set in Elizabethan England about the Jesuit priest Edmund Campion and William Shakespeare. As scholar T. W. Baldwin wrote, "Shakespeare's rhetoric was grandson's to Campion's." Written By: Anonymous