Directing
Ato Yanney
Born — Died
1933-01-22 — 2011-04-10
Place of birth
SENYA BEREKU, GHANA
Known for
Directing
Credits
4 titles
Ato Kwamina Yanney (Ato Yanney snr) was born on the 22nd January 1933 at Senya Bereku in the Central Region of Ghana. He attended the London school of Film Technique, where he studied screenplay writing and directing. He then went to the London University to pursue a degree in film critique and appreciation. During his days in England, he wrote short stories for B.B.C Home service which was broadcast to British Audiences. Some of the stories that he is fondly remembered for is the “Ominous Sneeze”, and " It came from Heaven" broadcast on BBC Home Service. Remembering the adage ‘there is no place like home,’ he returned to Ghana to join the Ghana Film Industry Corporation (Now Gama Film…
Known for
6.5The adventures of Ananse, the spider-man and brother of the god of the sky as well as a symbol of skill and shrewdness and a classic character in traditional Akan legends. The first feature film made in Ghana
No Tears for Ananse
1968
7.0His Majesty's Sergeant is a film produced by the late Ghanaian director Ato Yanney. A story of racial conflict set in the war-torn Burmese forest during 1944 when three soldiers, an African, an Indian and a Briton, end up hiding together. Three disparate bands, Jafa (Tommy Ebow Ansah), Singh (Surinder Singh Ghuman) and Jake (Tony Trent) are embroiled in their own differences of attitude, prejudice, rank and race equality. The film is a fascinating portrayal about the fight for Independence and the Commonwealth nations which helped Britain to win the war.
His Majesty's Sergeant
1984
A Ghanaian surgeon in London, returns to his homeland to seek out his mother. She is living with another man after the death of her husband. She does not realise that it is her son who has come to their shack seeking shelter for the night and the elderly couple plan to murder him, taking him for a wealthy young man. She receives a shock when the young man reveals that he knows about the circumstances leading to his father's death - murder by his mother's lover
Genesis Chapter X
1977
Behind the camera
6.5The adventures of Ananse, the spider-man and brother of the god of the sky as well as a symbol of skill and shrewdness and a classic character in traditional Akan legends. The first feature film made in Ghana
No Tears for Ananse
1968
7.0His Majesty's Sergeant is a film produced by the late Ghanaian director Ato Yanney. A story of racial conflict set in the war-torn Burmese forest during 1944 when three soldiers, an African, an Indian and a Briton, end up hiding together. Three disparate bands, Jafa (Tommy Ebow Ansah), Singh (Surinder Singh Ghuman) and Jake (Tony Trent) are embroiled in their own differences of attitude, prejudice, rank and race equality. The film is a fascinating portrayal about the fight for Independence and the Commonwealth nations which helped Britain to win the war.
His Majesty's Sergeant
1984
7.0His Majesty's Sergeant is a film produced by the late Ghanaian director Ato Yanney. A story of racial conflict set in the war-torn Burmese forest during 1944 when three soldiers, an African, an Indian and a Briton, end up hiding together. Three disparate bands, Jafa (Tommy Ebow Ansah), Singh (Surinder Singh Ghuman) and Jake (Tony Trent) are embroiled in their own differences of attitude, prejudice, rank and race equality. The film is a fascinating portrayal about the fight for Independence and the Commonwealth nations which helped Britain to win the war.
His Majesty's Sergeant
1984
A Ghanaian surgeon in London, returns to his homeland to seek out his mother. She is living with another man after the death of her husband. She does not realise that it is her son who has come to their shack seeking shelter for the night and the elderly couple plan to murder him, taking him for a wealthy young man. She receives a shock when the young man reveals that he knows about the circumstances leading to his father's death - murder by his mother's lover
Genesis Chapter X
1977