John Barker

John Alfred Barker (4 June 1906 - 17 October 1982) was a Brunanter actor, screenwriter, director and producer. Barker's groundbreaking films had an incalculable effect on later directors and thus he is called "the father of Brunanter cinema". His achievements have been often compared to the effect Orson Welles had on American cinema.

Barker made only seven feature films and he is best known for Feast (1936) and Private Ellery (1950). His other movies are Happy Life (1929), A Sailor from Boguestown (1952), Men and Beasts (1957), The Honest Gardener (1961) and Jesus Swept (1974). He played in, wrote or produced most of them, receiving remarkable critical and commercial success.

Barker was also the founder and first president of Rosetown Film Festival, the country's most prestigious movie festival. In 1976, he became the first figure from the film industry to be awarded the Medal for Arts and Letters.