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John Walsh is a double BAFTA and double Grierson-nominated filmmaker, best-selling author and founder of Walsh Bros Ltd, one of the UK's top 100 production companies. John met Ray Harryhausen as a film student to make a documentary about his life and work. Today, John is a Trustee of the Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation and, in 2021, founded the Harryhausen Awards.

His books include Harryhausen The Lost Movies and his acclaimed non-fiction Official Story of the Film series with titles on Flash Gordon, Escape From New York and Dr Who & The Daleks. All four Rondo Award Nominees for "Book of the Year". 2023 saw the release of Conan The Barbarian, and The Wicker Man. 2024 saw the publication of The Third Man: The Official Story of the Film, celebrating the 75th anniversary of "The best British film of all time." New book in 2025, Gladiator II: The Art and Making of the Ridley Scott Film.

John's notable film and television work includes the historical feature film Monarch, restored and remastered after John tracked down the original 35mm camera negative in a film vault and was the subject of a BBC News story about lost films and is now available on Prime Video.

ToryBoy The Movie was nominated for the Grierson Award for "Best Documentary on a Contemporary Theme." The film unlocked politics to a broad audience and is Britain's most successful political documentary feature film. It is now available on Prime Video. John's landmark Grierson-nominated homeless series Headhunting The Homeless for BBC2 lifted the lid on the corporate world and today's most vulnerable adults. Sofa Surfers for the BBC was television's first homeless series for children and was Rose d'Or nominated. The BAFTA-nominated Don't Make Me Angry brought clinical psychology into the home environment for the first time. All programmes can be viewed in full on the Walsh Bros YouTube Channel.

Gladiator II: The Art and Making of the Ridley Scott Film

The Wicker Man the Official Story of the Film

Conan the Barbarian: The Official Story of the Film

John Walsh was the youngest student accepted to the London Film School at the age of 18 to its post graduate course.

At the age of 15 Walsh was a winner of the BBC Young Filmmaker of the Year. This was part of the Saturday Picture Show with aired on BBC1.

He was 26 when he made is feature film directorial debut with historical film, Monarch.

He met Ray Harryhausen when he was a film student and made a documented about his life and work.

He is a Trustee of the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation along with Harryhausen&#39;s daughter, Vanessa.

His first book was on the unmade films of Ray Harryhausen. It was called Harryhausen The Lost Movies and was published in 2019.

He has joint British and Irish citizenship.

His successful search for the original camera negative for his film Monarch was covered by BBC News.

Walsh first got a super-8 cine camera at the age of eight.

His political feature documentary ToryBoy The Movie had two national cinema releases in the UK in 2011 and again in 2015.

Sofa Surfers was also the first HD series by Children&#39;s BBC.

At film school, he persuaded Tom Baker to voice over his Ray Harryhausen documentary. Baker won the role of Doctor Who after appearing in Harryhausen&#39;s 1972 film The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.

His BBC series Sofa Surfers was the first BBC documentary series solely devoted to the plight of the UK&#39;s homeless children.

He recorded commentaries with Ray Harryhausen for his film in the years before his death.

Walsh&#39;s acclaimed political feature film ToryBoy The Movies was banned by the student union at Teesside University after initially booking a screening and Q&amp;A in 2015.

Walsh&#39;s three-part Grierson Trust-nominated BBC series Headhunting The Homeless was part of the BBC&#39;s 120 most treasured programmes of 2003.

After his book Harryhausen: The Lost Movies he set up a film company called Ray Harryhausen Films Ltd to develop unmade Harryhausen projects.

His new book Dr Who &amp; The Daleks the Official Story of the Films is the first approved book written about the classic films from the 1960s.

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