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Roger Spottiswoode - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Canadian and American filmmaker, author of television films, screenwriter.
He started in the 70s as an editor. Was one of the editors of the film "Straw Dogs" / Straw Dogs (1971), then edited the picture "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid" / Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (1973), directed by Sam Peckinpah. In the same capacity he worked on the films "The Gambler" / The Gambler (1974) by Karel Reisch, "The Street Fighter" / Hard Times (1975) by Walter Hill.
Spottiswood's first independent motion picture was the horror film Terror Train (1980), starring Jamie Lee Curtis. The film is also known as The Horror Train. In 1981, the film received two Saturn nominations: Best Actress - Jamie Lee Curtis, and Best Picture. Spottiswood then directed Chasing D.B. Cooper "/ The Pursuit of DB Cooper (1981), dedicated to the unsuccessful search for the famous criminal DB Cooper. In 1982, the film brought the director a victory - a Special Jury Prize at the Cognac Festival du Film Policier.
In 1982, along with Walter Hill and Larry Gross, Spottiswood wrote the acclaimed film 48 Hours / 48 Hrs., Starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy.
The most popular director brought the political thriller "Under Fire" / Under Fire (1983). It was one of the few projects in which Spottiswood was involved from start to finish.
The director's career in the future underwent both undoubted successes and obvious failures. Spottiswood has repeatedly directed films commissioned by producers, started by other colleagues in the shop, for example, "Air America" ??/ Air America (1990), or embody weak scripts, for example, for the film "Turner & Hooch" / Turner & Hooch (TV, 1990 ).
Roger Spottiswood is the director of many famous films, including Stop! Not that mom will shoot ”/ Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992), "Tomorrow Never Dies" / Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), fantasy thriller "The 6th Day" (2000), "Shake Hands with the Devil" (2007 ), "Children of Huang Shi" / The Children of Huang Shi (2008).
In addition to his work in the cinema, Roger Spottiswood actively and successfully worked on television, for example, the feature film "Virus" / And the Band Played On (1993) based on the bestseller Randy Schilt, awarded "Emmy", and the documentary Japanese-American miniseries "Hiroshima" / Hiroshima (1995). In 2000, he again turned to the recent history of Central America, filming a picture of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega - "The Lord's Favorite" / Noriega: God's Favorite.
