John Roger Spottiswoode[1] (born 5 January 1945) is a Canadian-British director, editor and writer of film and television.
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Born | John Roger Spottiswoode (1945-01-05) 5 January 1945 (age 77) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
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Occupation | Film director Film editor Screenwriter |
Years active | 1966-present |
Organization(s) | Directors Guild of America Directors Guild of Canada |
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Children | 2 |
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He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and was raised in Britain. His father Raymond Spottiswoode was a British film theoretician who worked at the National Film Board of Canada during the 1940s, directing such short films such as Wings of a Continent.
In the 1960s, Roger entered the British film industry as a trainee editor where he apprenticed under editor John Bloom. In the early 1970s Spottiswoode edited several films for Sam Peckinpah.[2]
He wanted to direct and Walter Hill advised him the best way in was to write a script. Hill and Spottiswoode collaborated on the scripts for 48 Hours and the never-made The Last Gun. [3]
Spottiswoode turned to directing in the early 1980s and has since directed a number of notable films and television productions, including Under Fire (1983) and the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies starring Pierce Brosnan. Spottiswoode was a member of the writing team responsible for 48 Hrs. starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte. In 2000, he directed the science fiction action thriller The 6th Day starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Year | Film | Notes |
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1980 | Terror Train | |
1981 | The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper | Replaced director Buzz Kulik |
1983 | Under Fire | |
1986 | The Best of Times | |
1988 | Shoot to Kill | |
1989 | Turner & Hooch | |
1990 | Air America | |
1992 | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot | |
1994 | Mesmer | |
1997 | Tomorrow Never Dies | |
2000 | The 6th Day | |
2003 | Spinning Boris | |
2005 | Ripley Under Ground | |
2007 | Shake Hands with the Devil | |
2008 | The Children of Huang Shi | |
2012 | Beyond Right and Wrong | Documentary film Co-directed with Lekha Singh |
2014 | The Journey Home | Co-directed with Brando Quilici |
2016 | A Street Cat Named Bob | |
2021 | Either Side of Midnight |
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1982 | The Renegades | |
1987 | The Last Innocent Man | TV movie |
1989 | Third Degree Burn | |
1993 | And the Band Played On | |
1995 | Hiroshima | TV movie; Co-directed with Koreyoshi Kurahara |
1997 | Murder Live! | TV movie |
2000 | Noriega: God's Favorite | |
2002 | The Matthew Shepard Story | |
2003 | Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole | |
2018 | The Beach House | |
Films directed by Roger Spottiswoode | |
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