Lance Hool
Lance Hool (born May 11, 1948 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican film producer , actor and director .
Life
Hool grew up in Mexico City, his birthplace. He studied at the Universidad de las Américas . He gained his first experience in the film business in the early 1970s as an actor and was involved in around a dozen films by the end of the decade. Had a bigger role in The Bullfighters - The Death Song of Steel Chains from 1974. From 1979 he turned to film production and stopped acting. Up to and including 2011 he was involved in various positions in 25 productions. His directorial debut was published in 1985 with Missing in Action 2 - The Return . Steel Dawn followed two years later . In 1999, Riley's last battle ( One Man's Hero ) was his third and so far last directorial work.
Missing in Action 2 was originally supposed to be released before Missing in Action and was staged before it. It was shot in Mexico and on the island of St. Kitts . Hool was also responsible for the production processes and the cast and revised the actual script. He had previously worked with Cannon Films on A Man Like Dynamite .
As a producer he worked a. a. several times with the director J. Lee Thompson .
With the Santa Fe Film and Media Studios, Hool and other family members, u. a. his brother Conrad Hool, his own production studio. He has been married since 1971 and has two children.
Filmography (selection)
- 1979: Cabo Blanco ( Caboblanco , production)
- 1982: Flash Fire (Production)
- 1983: A Man Like Dynamite ( 10 to Midnight )
- 1985: Missing in Action 2 - The Beginning ( Missing in Action 2 - The Beginning , director)
- 1987: Steel Dawn (Direction and Production)
- 1989: Damned River (production)
- 1994: Roadflower (production)
- 1999: Riley's Last Battle ( One Man's Hero , Director and Producer)
- 2001: Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (production)
Web links
- Lance Hool in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tobias Hohmann: Chuck Norris . Action-Stars Volume 3. Knorr Martens, Hille 2013, ISBN 978-3-942621-20-5 , pp. 156 .
- ↑ Tobias Hohmann: Chuck Norris . Action-Stars Volume 3. Knorr Martens, Hille 2013, ISBN 978-3-942621-20-5 , pp. 153 .
- ↑ Tobias Hohmann: Chuck Norris . Action-Stars Volume 3. Knorr Martens, Hille 2013, ISBN 978-3-942621-20-5 , pp. 152 f .
- ^ History. In: www.santafestudios.com. Accessed January 8, 2018 .
- ^ Lance Hool Biography (1948-). In: http://www.filmreference.com . Retrieved January 7, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hool, Lance |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican film producer, actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico City , Mexico |