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Jan de Bont
Birth at
22 October 1943
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Jan De Bont was born in 1944 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. One of the well-known cameramen - directors of modern cinema, Jan De Bont began his career with work with Paul Verhoeven on the director's debut film "A case is a case" (1971). The collaboration between the director and the cameraman lasted quite a long time, and after working on the film The Fourth Man (1983), De Bont became one of the leading figures of Hollywood, and the debut of the operator in American cinema was the teenage comedy Private
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Jan De Bont was born in 1944 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. One of the well-known cameramen - directors of modern cinema, Jan De Bont began his career with work with Paul Verhoeven on the director's debut film "A case is a case" (1971).
The collaboration between the director and the cameraman lasted quite a long time, and after working on the film The Fourth Man (1983), De Bont became one of the leading figures of Hollywood, and the debut of the operator in American cinema was the teenage comedy Private Lessons (1981).
He makes a number of successful films: Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October, Lethal Weapon 3. In 1992, De Bont again collaborated with Verhoeven on the film Basic Instinct.
Having such a significant professional backlog, in 1994, De Bont finally puts his first film, Speed, with Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Dennis Hopper in the lead roles.
Then, in 1996, De Bont as a director shoots the spectacular, rich special effects “Tornado”, and in 1997 the sequel to the directorial debut of Jan De Bont “Speed – 2” was released, where he also acted as a producer.