Denis O’Dell, producer of The Beatles films including “A Hard Day’s Night’ and “Magical Mystery Tour” (1967,) has died at age 98.
O’Dell’s son Arran O’Dell confirmed to The Associated Press that his father died overnight at his house in Almería, in southeast Spain. He said the family planned a local private service and a memorial service at a later date in the United Kingdom.
Other Denis O’Dell movie credits include Brian Desmond Hurst’s “The Playboy of the Western World” in 1962, “The Deadly Affair” (1967), “Juggernaut”(1974) and “Robin and Marian” (1974).
O’Dell was an associate producer of The Beatles’ first film, “A Hard Day’s Night,” and “How I Won the War,” in which John Lennon appeared as a supporting actor.