Hans Friedrich Hermann Isay (26 June 1920 – 5 October 2015), popularly known by his stage name Sean Graham, was a German-born Ghanaian filmmaker and former British Army officer.
[1][failed verification] In cinema, he is best known for directing the critics acclaimed Ghana films The Boy Kumasenu, Jaguar and Two Weeks in September.
In 1948, he moved to Ghana and contributed to uplift the Ghanaian film industry during a span of ten years.
In 2015, Government of Ghana conferred a State honor on Graham due to his pioneering work on Ghanaian cinema.
[9] He was also the author of three novels: A Surfeit of Sun (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1964) and Hippo's Coup (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968), both set in Africa; and The French Odalisque based on the life of Aimée du Buc de Rivéry (Orbach & Chambers, 2009).