Patrick O'Connor (born 3 October 1943 in Ardmore, County Waterford, Ireland) is a BAFTA-winning Irish film director.
In 1982, O'Connor won a Jacob's Award for his direction of the RTÉ TV adaptation of William Trevor's short story Ballroom of Romance, starring Cyril Cusack and Brenda Fricker.
[1] He also directed Trevor's One of Ourselves for BBC TV, again starring Cyril Cusack, and filmed in Cappoquin and Lismore, County Waterford.
O'Connor has been married since 1990 to Oscar-nominated actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, with whom he has two sons.
He directed Mastrantonio in Fools of Fortune, another William Trevor film adaptation, and The January Man.