Lionel Chetwynd

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Lionel Chetwynd (born January 29, 1940 in London , England ) is an American screenwriter , film producer and film director .

Life

Chetwynd grew up in England for the first eight years and moved to Canada with his parents in 1948 . Here he spent the rest of his childhood and youth, first in Montreal and later in Toronto . He dropped out of school when he was 15 and signed up for a year in the Royal Canadian Army . Here he received a scholarship to McGill University , where Chetwynd studied law. After completing his undergraduate studies, he moved back to England, where he took further courses at Trinity College , Oxford .

However, Chetwynd soon realized his true passion and in 1968 he took a position at Columbia Pictures' UK branch , where he worked his way up to assistant program director over the next four years. In 1974 Chetwynd moved to New York , where he adapted the novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by the Canadian author Mordecai Richler into his first screenplay that same year, which was filmed by director Ted Kotcheff with Richard Dreyfuss and Jack Warden in the leading roles . In 1975, Chetwynd and Richler were jointly nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and for the WGA Award .

In the mid-1970s, Chetwynd received US citizenship. Thus, he belongs to that group of people who have three citizenships - in his case British, Canadian and US American.

Chetwynd quickly established his reputation as a writer for political and therefore sophisticated scripts, who in 1987 made The Hanoi Hilton, a film about a prisoner-of-war camp during the Vietnam War . In 1994 Doomsday Gun , he took a critical look at the United States gun lobby . Chetwynd also wrote the screenplays for three Bible films in 1994 and 1995, of which The Bible - Joseph was awarded an Emmy for Best Miniseries . Chetwynd himself was nominated for the WGA Award.

Although politically his views at the time were liberal and more democratic , Chetwynd became a strong supporter of the Republicans and the Bush administration . In 2004 he wrote the screenplay for DC 9/11: Time of Crisis , a film about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and its political consequences. Another film that encourages the Bush administration is the 2004 documentary film Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain ... Begins to Die , in which Chetwynd critically portrays filmmaker Michael Moore and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry . The title is a parody of the Moore film Fahrenheit 9/11 .

Lionel Chetwynd, who is a Jew , is married to the British actress Gloria Carlin . The two have two sons. Carlin is characterized by the fact that she took part in small roles in many films for which her husband wrote the script or directed.

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SURNAME Chetwynd, Lionel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter, film producer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England