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Roger Spottiswoode
Birth at
5 January 1945
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Roger Spottiswood was born on January 5, 1945 in Ottawa, Canada, to a former producer and employee of the National Film Council of Canada. He grew up in the UK, and his way to the cinema began at the age of 19 at the editing table. His first film was the comedy George Girl (1966), and then he worked for several years as an editor in television and in documentary films. In 1971, producer Daniel Melnick entrusted him with the job of senior editor in the film crew of Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs. With
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Roger Spottiswood was born on January 5, 1945 in Ottawa, Canada, to a former producer and employee of the National Film Council of Canada. He grew up in the UK, and his way to the cinema began at the age of 19 at the editing table. His first film was the comedy George Girl (1966), and then he worked for several years as an editor in television and in documentary films. In 1971, producer Daniel Melnick entrusted him with the job of senior editor in the film crew of Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs. With this director, Spottiswood collaborated on two more films - Escape (1972) and Pat Garrett and Billy Baby (1973). Other films he worked on as an editor include The Gambler (1974) and Who Will Stop the Rain (1977) by Karel Weisz and Hard Times (1975) by Walter Hill. As a director, Roger Spottiswood made his debut in 1980, directing the unremarkable action movie Horror Train, starring Jamie Lee Curtis. In 1982, together with Walter Hill and Larry Gross, he acted as a screenwriter of the famous film “48 Hours”, with Nick Nolty and Eddie Murphy in the lead roles. Widely stated by the director as the political thriller Under Fire (1983), it was one of the few projects in which Spottiswood participated from beginning to end. The career of the director in the future knew both undoubted successes and obvious failures, he more than once had to shoot films commissioned by producers, started by other colleagues in the workshop (Air America, 1990), or embody weak scripts (Turner and Hooch, 1989). Roger Spottiswood worked actively and successfully in television, such as the feature film "The Virus" ("And the Band Played On", 1993) by Randy Shilt's best-selling Emmy Award winner, and the documentary Japanese-American miniseries "Hiroshima" (1995). In 1997, Roger Spottiswood wrote his name in the history of Bond, putting the film "Tomorrow Never Dies", and in 2000 he shot on the topical topic of cloning the fantastic action movie "Sixth Day" with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the title role. In 2000, he again turned to the recent history of Central America, making a film about the Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega - "Lord's Beloved".