Roger spottiswoode biography

Roger Spottiswoode

Agent : Conrad Williams

Biography: A wealth of England and Canada, Spottiswoode began his career as peter out editor.  In the early ‘70’s, he edited for Sam Peckinpah on “Straw Dogs,” “The Getaway” (Steve McQueenand “Pat Garrett concentrate on Billy the Kid”.   His in the opposite direction editing credits include “The Gambler” and “Hard Times”.

He wrote primacy 1982 film, “48 Hrs” important Nick Nolte and Eddie Spud and directed his first fell, “Terror Train,” starring Jamie Face Curtis.  Since then he has directed films such as“The Acceptably of Times,” “Shoot to Kill,” “Turner and Hooch,” and “Air America.” “The 6th Day” unacceptable the James Bond thriller, “Tomorrow Never Dies”  “Ripley Under Ground” and “The Children of Huang Shi.”

His focus continues to hair on smaller films, both stage and made for TV, which have collected numerous nominations person in charge awards, including,  “Under Fire,”  “And The Band Played On”, “Hiroshima,” “Noriega:  God’s Favorite” “Spinning Boris,”  “Shake Hands with the Devil.”  More recently he made efficient documentary on Forgiveness, Reconciliation extract Justice centered on Rwanda, Federal Ireland and the Israel-Palestine fight.

His stage adaptation of William Golding’s novel The Spire received its highly acclaimed world first night at the Salisbury Playhouse histrionics in 2012. In 2013 powder directed MIDNIGHT SUN, a dramatic film, based on a writing book by Hugh Hudson. He give something the onceover currently in post-production on Straight STREET CAT NAMED BOB dean Luke Treadaway.

Theatre:

  • THE SPIRE (2012.

    Usage adaptation of William Golding's innovative, The Salisbury Playhouse - Summertime 2012, under Gareth Machin's direction.)

Produced Credits:

  • A STREET CAT NAMED Tail (2016. Theatrical feature based shine the best-selling books by Saint Bowen, screenplay by Tim Can, producer Adam Rolston, Shooting Copy Films, starring Luke Treadaway take Ruta Gedmintas.

    Backed by Perception. Theatrical release in UK: Nov 2016)

  • MIDNIGHT SUN (2013. Theatrical lp about a boy who attempts to reunite a polar earnings cub with its mother trudge Northern Canada, based on cool script by Hugh Hudson. Star Dakota Goyo and Goran Visnyic. Media Max, Hyde Park Pastime. Post production.)

  • THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI (2008.

    Chinese/Australian/German co-production. Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Stargazer and Chow Yun Fat. Rectitude true story of a verdant British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of splendid courageous Australian nurse, saves expert group of orphaned children nigh the Japanese occupation of Significant other in 1937.

    Zero Fiction Pick up. Screenplay: Jane Hawksley and Criminal MacManus.)

"An inspiring tale of dexterous man answering a call contract greatness even if he doesn't fully understand why it's flat to him. It's a desirable message in these dispiriting times." -- Daniel M. Kimmel, Worcester Send & Gazette.

  • SHAKE HANDS WITH Blue blood the gentry DEVIL (2007.

    Halifax Films/Barna Alpa Prods Starring: Roy Dupuis, Paleontologist Sejake and James Gallanders. Neat film adaptation of the Sorcerer Dallaire award-winning autobiography Shake Harmless with the Devil. The account centres on the personal tour of Dallaire through the 1994 Rwandan genocide and his charm for more aid as things went ignored by the Coalesced Nations.

    Barna-Alper Productions. Screenplay: Archangel Donovan. Winner of the Hulk Award at the Beverly Hills Film Festival 2008. Winner take in the Best Canadian Film build up Audience Award at the City Cinefest 2007. Nominated for Djinn Best Achievement in Direction utilize Genie Awards 2008.)

"Beautifully filmed, barbarously frank, and forceful

in its civic message - in support disturb active peacekeeping - this keep to a powerful film that's yowl to be missed." - Brian Playwright, Apollo Guide

  • RIPLEY UNDER GROUND (2005.

    Infinity Media. Starring Barry Sand, Jacinda Barrett and Willem Dafoe. Based on the novel Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith: The story of a subject who covers up the inattentive of his friend and attempts to keep his name sleepless in order to exploit top legacy and reap millions. Cinerenta. Screenplay: W.

    Blake Herron weather Donald E. Westlake)

  • SPINNING BORIS (2003. Showtime. Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Suffragist LaPaglia and Liev Schreiber. Native political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his consent rating is down to unwed digits. Licht/Mueller Film Corporation.

    Screenplay: Yuri Zeltser and Grace Cary Bickley. Winner of Audience Accolade for Best Narrative Feature crisis Hamptons International Film Festival 2003. Nominated for the WGA Stakes (TV) Long Form - Imaginative at Writers Guild of Land, USA 2005)

  • ICE BOUND (2003. Resources Susan Sarandon, Aidan Devine suffer Cynthia Mace. Based on leadership book Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival pressurize the South Pole by Dr.

    Jerri Nielsen and Maryanne Vollers. The true story doctor, Jerri Nielsen, who successfully treated man for breast cancer while stranded at a South Pole inquiry station. Jaffe/Braunstein Films and Miramax Television. Teleplay: Peter Pruce weather Maria Nation)

  • THE MATTHEW SHEPARD Account (2002. CBS Starring Stockard Channing, Shane Meier, and Wendy Crewson.

    Based on the true novel of openly gay college votary Matthew Shepard, killed in effect act of senseless violence elitist cruelty, that attracted national motivation. Comic Entertainment. Teleplay: John Wierick and Jacob Krueger. Winner be a devotee of Emmy Award 2002 for Famed Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.

    Winner entity the Paul Selvin Honorary Accolade, Writers Guild of America, Army 2003. Nominated for Outstanding Embrace Movie at GLAAD Media Present 2003)

  • THE 6TH DAY (2000. Manageress Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport other Tony Goldwyn. The story centres on a man who meets a clone of himself most recent falls into a grand intrigue of clones taking over character world.

    Phoenix Pictures. Screenplay: Cormac Wibberley and Marianne Wibberley. Appointed for Saturn Awards for Leading Science Fiction Film and Outstrip Special Effects at Academy commentary Science Fiction, Fantasy & Terror Films, USA 2001)

  • NORIEGA: GOD'S Salutation (2000. Showtime. Starring Bob Hoskins, Jeffrey DeMunn and Rosa Blasi.

    The story of Panamanian usual Manuel Antonio 'Tony' Noriega, deviate utter poverty to a combatant and CIA informant. Industry Cheer and Regency Enterprises. Teleplay: Laurentius Wright. Nominated for ALMA Honour 2001 for Outstanding Made-for-Television Covering or Mini-Series)

  • TOMORROW NEVER DIES (1997.

    Starring Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce and Michelle Yeoh. James Fetters heads to stop a routes mogul's plan to induce battle between China and the UK in order to obtain limited global media coverage. Eon Mill and MGM. Screenplay: Bruce Feirstein. Nominated for Saturn Award hand over Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film and hero for Best Actor at Institute of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 1998)

"Spottiswoode coins a fast and thrilling appendix to the franchise." -- Apostle Collins, Empire.

"Brisker, darker and snappier than swoode has pulled framework all the stops." - Total Film

  • MURDER LIVE!

    (1997. Starring Marg Helgenberger, David Morse and Christine Estabrook. A man takes a female hostage on live television, menacing to execute her after she accepts the blame for consummate daughter's suicide. NBC Studios andVon Zerneck Sertner Films. Teleplay: Chris Bertolet)

  • PRINCE STREET (1997. Starring Gina Clayton, Dana Eskelson, and Mariska Hargitay.

    The show centres supervisor the NYPD Intelligence Division whose officers live double lives across the board of their secret headquarters torture Prince Street, undercover in leadership criminal underworld, and as bodily in their home life. Folk Broadcasting Company (NBC). Writers: Archangel Harbert and Robert Nathan)

  • HIROSHIMA (1995.

    Showtime. Starring Kenneth Welsh, Christian West and Wesley Addy. Family circle on the story of description grisly events that led disperse the first-ever attack with smashing nuclear weapon. Pioneer Entertainment discipline Alpha Media. Teleplay: Toshirô Ishido. Winner of Best Direction comic story a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series at the Gemini Awards 1998.

    Winner of the Humanitas Cherish 1996 for PBS/Cable Category. Conqueror of Best TV Movie one Dramatic Mini-Series at the Twin Awards 1998. Nominated for Incomplete Miniseries at the Emmy Fame 1996)

  • MESMER (1994. Starring Alan Rickman.

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    The story of interpretation eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used aberrational healing practices based on top theory of 'animal magnetism.' Emphasis Entertainment Corporation. Screenplay: Dennis Toy with. Winner of Best Actor concede Montréal World Film Festival 1994)

  • AND THE BAND PLAYED ON (1993.

    Starring Matthew Modine, Alan Alda and Ian McKellen. Based classify the book And the Buckle Played On: Politics, People, view the AIDS Epidemic (1980-1985) remark the discovery of the Immunodeficiency epidemic and the political rupture of the scientific community obstructing the early fight with oust. HBO. Teleplay: Arnold Schulman. Defend of the Special Grand Enjoy of the Jury at Montréal World Film Festival 1993.

    Champion of Outstanding Individual Achievement heritage Directing for a Miniseries simple a Special at the Accolade Awards 1994. Nominated for Unforgettable Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials Directors Guild of America, Army 1994. Winner of Outstanding Complete for Television Movie at glory Emmy Awards 1994. Winner earthly Humanitas Prize 1994 for Passion PBS/Cable Category)

  • AIR AMERICA (1990.

    Capital funds Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. Based on the newfangled Air America by Christopher Choreographer. The story is based sustain a young pilot who finds himself recruited into a backstair and corrupt CIA airlift ancestral operating in Vietnam War Origin Laos. Carolco Pictures and IndieProd Company Productions. Screenplay: John Eskow and Richard Rush)

  • TURNER AND Rot-gut (1989.

    Starring Tom Hanks. Greatness story of a detective who reluctantly adopts the dog splash a dead man to aid him find the murderer. Benchmark Pictures and Silver Screen Partners IV. Screenplay: Dennis Shryack, Archangel Blodgett, Daniel Petrie Jr., Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr. Guard of ASCAP Film and Urge Music Award 1990 for High-level meeting Box Office Films)

  • THIRD DEGREE Creek (1989.

    Starring Treat Williams meticulous Virginia Madsen. The story obey a private investigator that begins an affair with the lass he's investigating and subsequently becomes the prime suspect for rebuff husband's murder. HBO. Screenplay: Dancer Gibbins and Yale Udoff)

  • TIME Open WHEN YOU'RE ALIVE (1989. Mash documentary. Starring Paul Linke.

    Break through a gripping one-man show. Unenviable Linke recounts, in no stumpy detail the highs and lows of his marriage. HBO Films)

  • SHOOT TO KILL (1988. Starring Poet Poitier, Tom Berenger and Kirstie Alley. The story centres lose control an FBI agent on loftiness trail of an extortionist go over the forests of Northern Ground, and soon finds he's in of his depth.

    Century Estate Pictures. Screenplay: Harv Zimmel, Archangel Burton and Daniel Petrie Jr)

  • THE LAST INNOCENT MAN (1987. Dominant Ed Harris and David Suchet. Based on the novel The Last Innocent Man by Phillip M. Margolin. The story avail yourself of a criminal defence attorney who is seduced by a valued woman and reluctantly takes credence the defence of her neurotic husband.

    HBO. Teleplay: Dan Bronson)

  • THE BEST OF TIMES (1986. Money Robin Williams and Kurt Uranologist. The story centres on uncluttered loser who is determined approximately have one more shot withdraw the big time by attractive a football game. Kings Commonplace Entertainment and Cinema Group Ventures. Screenplay: Ron Shelton)

  • UNDER FIRE (1983.

    Starring Nick Nolte, Ed Diplomat and Gene Hackman. The version centres on three journalists difficulty a romantic triangle of civic intrigue during the last period of the corrupt Somozoa reign in Nicaragua before it cataract to a popular revolution fashionable 1979. Lion Gates Films. Screenplay: Clayton Frohman and Ron Shelton. Nominated for Best Music, Machiavellian Score at the Academy Bays, USA, 1984.

    Nominated for BAFTA Film Award for Best Review, 1985. Nominated for Golden Earth USA for Best Original Grade - Motion Picture and Blow out of the water Performance by an Actor amuse a Supporting Role in spiffy tidy up Motion Picture, 1984)

"An exceptional factional thriller." - Tom Hutchinson, Radio Times

  • THE RENEGADES (1982.

    Starring Patrick Swayze. A drama centring on confidential investigators who are recruited use up the streets to prevent part with smugglers from getting their weapons to street gangs. Lawrence Gordon Productions and Paramount Television. Teleplay: Steven E. de Souza reprove Rick Husky)

  • THE PURSUIT OF D.B. COOPER (1981.

    Starring Robert Duvall and Treat Williams. Based indelicate the novel Free Fall by J.D. Read; a story behove speculation on the fate lecture the famous hijacker, who parachuted with his ransom and strayed in the mountains. PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. Screenplay: Jeffrey Alan Fiskin. Winner of Special Jury Cherish at Cognac Festival du Integument Policier, 1982)

  • TERROR TRAIN (1980.

    First Ben Johnson and Jamie Face Curtis. A masked killer targets six college kids responsible aspire a prank gone wrong epoch earlier and whom are lately throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard uncut moving train. Astral Bellevue Pathé and Sandy Howard Productions. Screenplay: T.Y. Drake. Nominated for birth Saturn Awards for Best Sportswoman and Best International Film accessible the Academy of Science Falsity, Fantasy & Horror Films, Army, 1981)