Sean Graham

Sean Graham was born as Hans Friedrich Hermann Isay in Berlin in 1920 but fled with his family to Britain in 1933 where he later read Law at Cambridge university. When war broke out he was initially interned as an alien but, changing his name to Sean Graham, he worked as an interpreter with the British army, rising in the ranks to lieutenant-colonel. After the war he became a film trainee with Paul Rotha at Elstree studios and in 1948 moved to Ghana, where he spent ten years developing the country's film industry. After a brief stay in Tunisia he returned to work in film in London, where he died on 5th October 2015.