My friend Gael Dohany, who has died aged 73 of cancer, was a film-maker whose dramatised documentary Occupy! chronicled the work-in at a Merseyside factory in 1972 when Fisher-Bendix announced that it would move washing-machine production to Spain, axing 500 jobs.
Born and brought up in Buffalo, New York state, the only child of Effie (nee Leonard), a business studies teacher, and Joseph Dohany, a manager at American Motors, Gael received a Catholic education at Buffalo Seminary, and went on to complete a master’s degree at Columbia University, New York.
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Born and brought up in Buffalo, New York state, the only child of Effie (nee Leonard), a business studies teacher, and Joseph Dohany, a manager at American Motors, Gael received a Catholic education at Buffalo Seminary, and went on to complete a master’s degree at Columbia University, New York.
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- 8/3/2015
- by Robin Porter
- The Guardian - Film News
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