By The O'Sullivan Clan Blog | November 14, 2010 at 05:51 PM EST | No Comments
With 1995's Nothing Personal director and cinematographer Thaddeus O'Sullivan produced one of the most brutal accounts of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland ever committed to celluloid. Born in Dublin in 1947, O'Sullivan received an M.A. in film and television from the Royal College of Art. He worked throughout the 1970s and '80s as a cinematographer, and he made his feature directorial debut with 1990's December Bride. O'Sullivan followed December Bride with Nothing Personal five years later. The acclaim surrounding the latter provided the director with his breakthrough, Ordinary Decent Criminal, starring Kevin Spacey as a modern-day Dublin gangster who manages to rob, cheat, and womanize while maintaining unimpeachable charm.