Jo Durden-Smith
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Jo Durden-Smith[1] (Pinner, Middlesex, UK 1941-London, May 10, 2007) was a British documentary film maker. His work included The Doors are Open, The Stones in the Park, Johnny Cash at St Quentin, and, later, television work Russian Godfathers on the Russian oligarchs.
His books included Who Killed George Jackson?, on the Black Panthers.
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[edit] Life
He was educated at Haileybury and Merton College, Oxford. He worked for World in Action, Granada TV's documentary team, where his rock films were made.
Subsequently he lived in New York, and then Moscow. He was a columnist for The Moscow Times, to 1997.
[edit] Books
- Who Killed George Jackson?
- Sex and the Brain (1983) with Diane DeSimone
- Russia: a long-shot romance (1994)
- Mafia (2002)
- 100 most infamous criminals (2003)
- The Essence of Buddhism (2004)
[edit] Notes
- ^ John Anthony Durden-Smith.
