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{{Short description|Irish film director}}
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{{Infobox person
|name=Pat O'Connor
|birth_name= Patrick O’Connor
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1943|10|3}}
|birth_place=[[Ardmore, County Waterford]], Ireland
|death_date=
|death_place=
|spouse={{marriage|[[Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio]]<br />|1990}}
|occupation=[[Film director]]
|children=2
}}
'''Patrick O'Connor''' (born October 3, 1943 in [[Ardmore, County Waterford]], Ireland) is a [[BAFTA]]-winning Irish film director.
==Career==
In 1982, O'Connor won a [[Jacob's Award]] for his direction of the RTÉ TV adaptation of [[William Trevor]]'s short story ''Ballroom of Romance'', starring [[Cyril Cusack]] and [[Brenda Fricker]]. It was shot near the village of Ballycroy, County Mayo. He subsequently won the BAFTA award for Best Television Single Drama, 1983 for the same work.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1983/television/single-drama|title=1983 Television Single Drama - BAFTA Awards|publisher=}}</ref> He also directed Trevor's ''One of Ourselves'' for BBC TV, again starring Cyril Cusack, and filmed in Cappoquin and Lismore, County Waterford.
O'Connor has been married since 1990 to [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-nominated actress [[Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio]], with whom he has two sons. He directed Mastrantonio in ''[[Fools of Fortune]]'', another William Trevor film adaptation, and ''[[The January Man]].''<ref>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Vincent Canby|author-link=Vincent Canby|date=1989-01-13|title=Kevin Kline On the Trail Of a Killer|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=950DEEDF1331F930A25752C0A96F948260}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Is January The Cruelest Month?|author=Janet Maslin|author-link=Janet Maslin|date=1989-02-05|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/05/movies/film-view-is-january-the-cruelest-month.html}}</ref>
== Filmography ==
*''[[Cal (1984 film)|Cal]]'' (1984)
*''[[The Ballroom of Romance]]'' (filmed in 1982; released in 1986)
*''[[A Month in the Country (film)|A Month in the Country]]'' (1987)
*''[[Stars and Bars (1988 film)|Stars and Bars]]'' (1988)
*''[[The January Man]]'' (1989)
*''[[Fools of Fortune]]'' (1990)
*''[[Zelda (film)|Zelda]]'' (1993)
*''[[Circle of Friends (1995 film)|Circle of Friends]]'' (1995)
*''[[Inventing the Abbotts]]'' (1997)
*''[[Dancing at Lughnasa (film)|Dancing at Lughnasa]]'' (1998)
*''[[Sweet November (2001 film)|Sweet November]]'' (2001)
*''[[Private Peaceful (film)|Private Peaceful]]'' (2012)
== References ==
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== External links ==
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