Biography of sally henzell
Sally Henzell was born in in Jamaica.!
Sally Henzell.
Perry Henzell
Jamaican filmmaker (1936–2006)
Perry Henzell (7 March 1936 – 30 November 2006) was a Jamaican director. He directed the first Jamaican feature film, The Harder They Come (1972), co-written by Trevor D.
Rhone and starring Jimmy Cliff.[1]
Life and career
Henzell, whose ancestors included Huguenotglassblowers and an old English family who had made their fortune growing sugar cane on Antigua,[2] was born in Annotto Bay, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica,[3] and grew up on the Caymanas sugar-cane estate near Kingston.[4] He was sent to Shrewsbury School in the United Kingdom at the age of 14 and later attended McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in 1953 and 1954.[5] He then dropped out of this school, choosing instead to hitchhike around Europe.
He eventually got work as a stagehand for BBC television in London.[1] He returned in the 1950s to Jamaica, where he directed advertisements for some years un