Gael Dohany obituary

My friend Gael Dohany, who has died aged 73 of cancer, was a film-maker whose dramatised documentary Occupy! chronicled the work-in at a Merseyside factory in 1972 when Fisher-Bendix announced that it would move washing-machine production to Spain, axing 500 jobs.

Born and brought up in Buffalo, New York state, the only child of Effie (nee Leonard), a business studies teacher, and Joseph Dohany, a manager at American Motors, Gael received a Catholic education at Buffalo Seminary, and went on to complete a master’s degree at Columbia University, New York.