EPITAPH: SERIES II. FATHER FRANCIS VERNON DOUGLAS

Year: 1999
Reference: F41223
Media type: Moving image

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Year: 1999
Reference: F41223
Media type: Moving image

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Series: EPITAPH
Place of production: New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories: Television
Duration: 0:22:08
Broadcast Date: 19/05/1999
Production company: GREENSTONE PICTURES
Credits: Presenter: Paul Gittins
‘A Glorious Death’ Director: Juliet Monaghan
Producer: John Harris
Associate Producer: Philippa Mossman
Production Assistant: Emily Crockett
Production Assistant: Denene Marten
Production Co-Ordinator: Mandy Harris
Assistant Director: Kim Willis
Producer: Kim Willis
Location Manager: Jared Connon
Director of Photography: Michael O'Connor
Camera Assistant: Paul Holland
Online Editor: Alex Wilson
Offline Editor: Eric de Beus
Sound: Andrew Ennever
Sound: Beth Tredray
Sound Mix: Terry Murphy
Art Director: Sam Storey
Writers: Juliet Monaghan
Researcher: Trevor Conn
Archivist: Bridgid Davis

“A Glorious Death”

Francis Vernon Douglas was an outstanding young athlete and rugby player who spent several years as a popular parish priest in New Plymouth before following the call to become a missionary. Based in the Philippines in World War Two, Father Douglas was captured and tortured by the Japanese. There is a college named after him in his hometown, the Francis Douglas Memorial College, but mystery still surrounds his fate.

Features: Brother Bill (College Principal), Patty O’Donoghue (Francis Douglas Sister),
Patricia Brooks (Father Douglas’ Biographer).