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Belfast-born film director (1895–1986)

Brian Desmond Hurst (12 February 1895 – 26 September 1986) was an Irishfilm director.

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With over thirty films in his filmography, Hurst was hailed as Northern Ireland's best film director by BBC film critic Mike Catto.^[1] He is perhaps best known for the 1951 A Christmas Carol adaptation Scrooge.

Early life

Hurst was born at 23 Ribble Street, Belfast, into a working-class family. He attended the New Road School, a public elementary school in East Belfast.^[2]

Hurst's father, Robert senior, and brother, Robert junior, were iron-workers in the Harland and Wolff shipyard.

In August 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, Hurst enlisted as a private in the British Army. He saw service with the 6th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles at the battle of Chunuk Bair in Gallipoli, the Balkans and the Middle East.

At Chunuk Bair his regiment were "battle virgins when they were thrown into the Turkish mach