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Paul Turner

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

December 30, 1945(73)

Day of Death

November 1, 2019

Place of Birth

Cornwall, England, UK

Paul Turner

Directing

Biography

Paul Turner was a British film director. He learned Welsh while working at the BBC as a film editor in the 1980s. In 1993, his anti-war Welsh-language film Hedd Wyn became the first British film to be nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Academy Awards.