Tony Maylam

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Tony Maylam (born May 26, 1943 in London ) is a British film director and screenwriter , who became internationally known for films such as Night and Fog , Burning Vengeance and Split Second .

life and career

Tony Maylam, born in London in 1943, was first known at the beginning of the 1970s as a documentary filmmaker, among other things with sports and music documentaries, and later also as a director and screenwriter for feature films. He made his screen debut as a director for the cinema in 1979 with the literary film adaptation of the novel The Riddle of the Sandbank by the Irish writer Robert Erskine Childers . The British film with the German distribution title Bei Nacht und Nebel featured the actors Michael York , Jenny Agutter and Simon MacCorkindale . His second directorial work for international cinema followed in 1981 with the horror thriller Burning Vengeance produced by Harvey Weinstein with Brian Matthews and Leah Ayres in the leading roles.

After the two television films The Murders of Dorian Gray and Across the Lake in the 1980s, the action film Split Second with Rutger Hauer and Kim Cattrall followed in the early 1990s . In 2001 he directed the romantic thriller Phoenix Blue with Matt Bardock and Amanda Donohoe in the lead roles. After a series of video documentaries, he finally directed the independent action drama Journal of a Contract Killer in 2008 . The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival in the Best Feature Film category .

In addition to his work as a director and screenwriter, he also worked briefly as a producer at the beginning of his career, including for the music documentary Genesis: In Concert .

Awards

  • 1977: BAFTA Awards nomination in the Flaherty Documentary Award category for White Rock at the 1977 British Academy Film Awards
  • 2008: Grand Jury Prize at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival in the Best Feature Film category for Journal of a Contract Killer

Filmography (selection)

As a director

  • 1972: Just to Prove It (documentary)
  • 1972: Cup Glory (documentary)
  • 1977: Genesis: In Concert (documentary)
  • 1977: White Rock (documentary)
  • 1979: In Nacht und Nebel (The Riddle of the Sands)
  • 1981: The Burning (The Burning)
  • 1983: The Sins of Dorian Gray (Movie made for TV)
  • 1987: Challenge Mexico (Hero: The Official Film of the 1986 FIFA World Cup) (Documentary)
  • 1988: Across the Lake (TV movie)
  • 1992: Split Second
  • 2001: Phoenix Blue
  • 2008: Journal of a Contract Killer

As a screenwriter

  • 1972: Just to Prove It (documentary)
  • 1972: Cup Glory (documentary)
  • 1977: Genesis: In Concert (documentary)
  • 1977: White Rock (documentary)
  • 1979: In Nacht und Nebel (The Riddle of the Sands)
  • 1981: The Burning (The Burning)
  • 1987: Challenge Mexico (Hero: The Official Film of the 1986 FIFA World Cup) (Documentary)
  • 2001: Phoenix Blue
  • 2008: Journal of a Contract Killer

literature

  • Tony Maylam. In: Robert Murphy : Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion. , British Film Institute, 2006, p. 420

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Tony Maylam in: Michael Singer: Michael Singer's Film Directors: A Complete Guide. , Lone Eagle Publishing, Beverly Hills, California 1993, 203
personal data
SURNAME Maylam, Tony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK