Roger Spottiswoode
Roger Spottiswoode (born January 5, 1945 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a British - Canadian film and television director.
Life
Roger Spottiswoode was born in Ottawa in 1945 to the British film scholar and producer Raymond Spottiswoode (1913-1970).
He worked from the mid-1960s in the UK as an assistant film editor by John Bloom in a few films and documentaries before by Sam Peckinpah for cutting the films Straw Dogs was engaged (1971). He then worked with Peckinpah on his late- west Pat Garrett chasing Billy the Kid (1972).
After a few more work as a film editor, Spottiswoode took on his first directing assignments in 1979. In addition to highly acclaimed works such as Under Fire with Nick Nolte and Jean-Louis Trintignant or the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies , it also delivered action spectacles such as Air America and The 6th Day, which have been criticized by critics . Even comedies like Stop! Or my mommy shoots! with Sylvester Stallone and Scott & Huutsch with Tom Hanks are part of his repertoire.
In 1993, Spottiswoode received a Special Grand Prize of the Jury for And the Band Played On at the Montreal World Film Festival . The following year he was nominated for this television drama at the Emmy Awards . His biopic Mesmer (1994) with Alan Rickman in the leading role never made it to the cinemas, although Rickman received an award for best actor at the same festival. In 1998 he won a Gemini Award for directing Hiroshima .
In 2011 Spottiswoode was on the jury of the 8th Indian Film Festival in Stuttgart .
He is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada .
From his 1983 to 1997 marriage with Holly Palance , the daughter of Jack Palance and Virginia Baker , had two children.
Filmography
as a director
- 1979: Monster in the night express (Terror Train)
- 1981: The Hunt (Pursuit)
- 1983: Under Fire
- 1983: Fists, Gangs, and Hot Stoves - Reinforcement from the Street ( The Renegades ; TV movie)
- 1986: Rocket Man (The Best of Times)
- 1987: In the Face of the Judge ( The Last Innocent Man ; TV movie)
- 1988: Shoot to Kill (Deadly Pursuit)
- 1989: Scott & Huutsch (Turner & Hootch)
- 1989: The Dead Love Better ( Third Degree Burn ; TV movie)
- 1990: Air America
- 1991: stop! Or my mommy shoots! (Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot)
- 1993: ... and life goes on ( And the Band Played On ; TV movie)
- 1993: Mesmer
- 1995: Hiroshima (TV movie)
- 1997: James Bond 007 - Tomorrow Never Dies
- 1997: Deadly Confession ( Murder live!; TV movie)
- 2000: Noriega - God's darling or monster? ( Noriega: God's Favorite ; TV movie)
- 2000: The 6th Day
- 2002: The Matthew Shepard Story (TV movie)
- 2003: Trapped in Eternal Ice - The Story of Dr. Jerri Nielsen ( Ice Bound , TV movie)
- 2003: Spinning Boris
- 2005: Ripley Under Ground
- 2006: The Spire
- 2008: The Children of Huang Shi (The Children of Huang Shi)
- 2009: Forgiveness and Justice (documentary)
- 2012: Beyond Right and Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness (documentary)
- 2014: Midnight Sun
- 2016: Bob the Stray (A Street Cat Named Bob)
- 2018: The Beach House (TV movie)
as a screenwriter
- 1982: only 48 hours (48 Hrs.)
as a film editor
- 1971: Who sows violence (Straw Dogs)
- 1972: Pat Garrett chases Billy the Kid (Patt Garrett & Billy the Kid)
- 1974: The Gambler (The Gambler)
- 1975: A Hard Times (The Streetfighter)
Web links
- Roger Spottiswoode in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ To an interview with Director Roger Spottiswoode . In: terrortrap.com from April 2011.
- ↑ John Roger Spottiswoode . In: dgc.ca, accessed on April 21, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spottiswoode, Roger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-Canadian film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ottawa , Ontario , Canada |