John Jeffrey Krish (4 December 1923 – 7 May 2016) was a British film director andscreenwriter. He directed and filmed much archive footage and in particularOur School in 1962, showing the changing ways of Britain's school and the last few years of the 11-plus exam.^[1]

In November 2010, theBritish Film Institute compiled four of Krish'sdocumentaryshort films – The Elephant Will Never Forget (1953),They Took Us to the Sea (1961),Our School (1962) andI Think They Call Him John (1964) – asA Day in the Life: Four Portraits of Post-War Britain.^[2] This compilation won the award for Best Documentary for 2010 at theEvening Standard British Film Awards.^[3]

• General Election (1945,short film) – editor
• The Elephant Will Never Forget (1953, short film)^[4]
• Companions in Crime (1954)
• The Salvage Gang (1958)
• Captured (1959)
• Return To Life (1960, short film)^[4] – writer, director and narrator
• They Took Us to the Sea (1961) – writer and director
• Our School (1962) – writer and director
• The Wild Affair (1963) – writer and director
• Unearthly Stranger (1963)
• I Think They Call Him John (1964) – writer and director
• Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968)
• The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970)
• Drive Carefully, Darling (1975, short film)^[4] – director and co-writer
• The Finishing Line short (1977, short film)^[4] – director and co-writer
• Jesus (1979) – co-director
• Friend or Foe (1982)
• Out of the Darkness (1985) – writer, director and editor

• John Krish atIMDb 
• Imperial War Museum Interview
• BFI – In memoriam
• Obituary – Telegraph
• "The British Entertainment History Project | John Krish |".historyproject.org.uk.

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