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English photographer and film producer

This article is about the English photographer. For other uses, see Brian Duffy (disambiguation).

Brian Duffy (15 June 1933 – 31 May 2010) was an English photographer and film producer,^[1] best remembered for his fashion and portrait photography of the 1960s and 1970s.

Early life

Brian Duffy was born to Irish parents in London in 1933. During World War II he was evacuated with his two brothers and sister to Kings Langley where he was taken in by the actors Roger Livesey and Ursula Jeans.

After a few weeks, his mother, unhappy about her four children being split up from the family insisted they all return to London.

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When the bombing in London became intense they were evacuated for a second time to Wales but returned to London having lived on a remote farm for a month.

Once back in London, Duffy 'had the most wonderful war', breaking into abandoned houses and running wild.

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