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Anthony Hickox (born 30th January 1959)[1] is an English film director, producer, actor and screenwriter.[2]

Anthony Hickox
Born (1959-01-01) 1 January 1959 (age 63)
NationalityEnglish
OccupationFilm director, television director, film producer, screenwriter
Known for

He is best known for his work in the horror genre, with films like Waxwork and its sequel, Waxwork II: Lost in Time, Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, and Warlock: The Armageddon. He directed a 1997 film adaptation of the long-running Prince Valiant comic strip starring Stephen Moyer as the eponymous character. His visual style often uses a dual-focus technique in which one person's face takes up most of the screen in profile, with another person shown on the other half of the screen in the background.


Biography


Anthony "Tony" Hickox was born in 1959 in Hampstead, London to a family of filmmakers. He is the eldest son of the director Douglas Hickox and Academy Award-winning editor Anne V. Coates and elder brother of editor Emma E. Hickox and James D.R. Hickox. He is also the great nephew of Lord J. Arthur Rank who controlled the British film industry for many years.[3]

After starting as a club promoter in London, he came to LA in 1986 and became a writer and director during the late 1980s. He then started directing action movies after a list of 1990s horror films including the third entry in the Hellraiser series. This led to HBO hiring him to make its first action/horror, Full Eclipse, which spawned the Friday night action slot that lasted over 5 years and to which Hickox made several more contributions. At the same time, he continued his deal at Universal where he shot pilots for Extreme, Two, Martial Law and New York Undercover.

After working with Natascha McElhone and William Hurt on Contaminated Man, he went on to direct Katherine Heigl and Stephen Moyer in a feature-length adaptation of the Prince Valiant comic strip. The film was described by one of its actors, Warwick Davis, as "a disaster from start to finish" which was "premiered, panned and bombed". He blames this on Hickox, who he says "seemed intent on partying all night long and giving roles to his friends."[4]

He then directed Steven Seagal in Submerged and Eddie Griffin in Blast, which made over $15 million each via a direct-to-video release. In 2008, he completed the British horror movie Knife Edge. In 2019, he completed Underdogs Rising with Chris Pang and Infamous 6 which shot in Hong Kong, for PopLife Global owned by Ex Chatman of Disney China.[5]

He was on the board of directors of the now-dissolved film distribution company Seven Arts Pictures run by Peter Hoffman, the ex-chairman of Carolco and the production company Medient Studios run by Indian film producer Manu Kumaran.

He is known as a maverick filmmaker often at odds with his producers.

He married Romanian actress Madalina Anea.[citation needed]

He is working on a Federico Fellini biopic and Zombie Bride shooting in Spain.[5]


Filmography



Feature films



Television



References


  1. "Anthony Hickox".
  2. "Interview with Anthony Hickox: Director of Waxwork". Halloween Love. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  3. Kane, Paul (23 May 2012). The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy. McFarland. ISBN 9781476600697.
  4. Davis, Warwick (2011). Size Matters Not: The Extraordinary Life and Career of Warwick Davis. London: Aurum Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-1-84513-620-8. OCLC 751744623.
  5. Gillam, JD (11 October 2021). "Anthony Hickox | SUNDOWN: THE VAMPIRE IN RETREAT". Starburst. Retrieved 23 October 2022.



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[de] Anthony Hickox

Anthony Hickox (* 1959 in London, England, Großbritannien) ist ein britischer Regisseur, Schauspieler sowie Drehbuchautor. Als kleiner Junge schaute sich Anthony Hickox oft heimlich nachts Horrorfilme des britischen Filmunternehmens Hammer-Films im Fernsehen an.[1] Seine bekanntesten Werke stammen aus dem Horrorgenre. Im Rahmen des Horrorfilms Hellraiser III drehte er einen Musikclip für die Band Motörhead. Vermehrt war er auch als Regisseur einzelner Folgen von US-Serien zuständig (New York Undercover; Extreme-Das Leben am Abgrund; Gejagt-Das zweite Gesicht; Pensacola-Flügel aus Stahl). Seim Schaffen umfasst mehr als zwei Dutzend Produktionen, sein Regiedebüt gab er 1988 mit Reise zurück in der Zeit.
- [en] Anthony Hickox



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