Jack Beresford
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Jack Beresford.
Known For
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love letter to the human body and spirit, culminating with the marathon, where Jesse Owens became the first track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympics.
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave the main stadium and venture into the many halls and fields deployed for such sports as fencing, polo, cycling, and the modern pentathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris.
Sunshine
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
Filmography
as Self - Olympics, Carries UK Flag (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self - Rower, Britain (uncredited)
as Self - Carries British Flag (uncredited)