Jack O'Connell (May 2, 1923 – July 20, 2019) was an American filmmaker, actor & songwriter particularly noted for producing Greenwich Village Story (1963), Revolution (1968) and Swedish Fly Girls (1971).

Following the war, he graduated with an BA from Princeton University in 1947, and an MBA from Harvard Business School (Advertising and Marketing major) in 1949.

[1] O'Connell was noted for making films about the post-beat and hippie movements in San Francisco in the 1960s.

This film also featured Country Joe and the Fish, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Steve Miller Band.

[2] In 1996, O'Connell released a revised version of Revolution labelled Hippie Revolution, including interviews conducted in 1986 with people from the original version of the film, now speaking in hindsight about their experiences.