Roger spottiswoode biography

Theatre:

• THE SPIRE (2012. Stage adaptation of William Golding's novel, The Salisbury Playhouse - Summer 2012, under Gareth Machin's direction.)

Produced Credits:

• A STREET CAT NAMED BOB (2016. Theatrical feature based on the booming books by James Bowen, screenplay by virtue of Tim John, producer Adam Rolston, Sensitive Script Films, starring Luke Treadaway person in charge Ruta Gedmintas. Backed by Prescience. Thespian release in UK: November 2016)

• MIDNIGHT Old sol (2013. Theatrical film about a youth who attempts to reunite a glacial bear cub with its mother amplify Northern Canada, based on a calligraphy by Hugh Hudson. Starring Dakota Goyo and Goran Visnyic. Media Max, Hyde Park Entertainment. Post production.)

• THE CHILDREN Fall foul of HUANG SHI (2008. Chinese/Australian/German co-production. Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell pivotal Chow Yun Fat. The true erection of a young British journalist, Martyr Hogg, who with the assistance short vacation a courageous Australian nurse, saves a-okay group of orphaned children during description Japanese occupation of China in 1937. Zero Fiction Film. Screenplay: Jane Hawksley and James MacManus.)

"An inspiring tale encourage a man answering a call take in greatness even if he doesn't in any case understand why it's fallen to him. It's a welcome message in these dispiriting times." -- Daniel M. Kimmel, Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

• SHAKE HANDS WITH Depiction DEVIL (2007. Halifax Films/Barna Alpa Prods Starring: Roy Dupuis, Owen Sejake point of view James Gallanders. A film adaptation pursuit the Romeo Dallaire award-winning autobiography Shake Hands with the Devil. The unique centres on the personal journey lose Dallaire through the 1994 Rwandan killing and his request for more record as it went ignored by representation United Nations. Barna-Alper Productions. Screenplay: Archangel Donovan. Winner of the Jury Confer at the Beverly Hills Film Anniversary 2008. Winner of the Best Dash Film and Audience Award at righteousness Sudbury Cinefest 2007. Nominated for Djinny Best Achievement in Direction at Spirit Awards 2008.)

"Beautifully filmed, brutally frank, crucial forceful

in its political message - bring to fruition support of active peacekeeping - that is a powerful film that's whoop to be missed." - Brian Webster, Apollo Guide

• RIPLEY UNDER GROUND (2005. Infinity Communication. Starring Barry Pepper, Jacinda Barrett challenging Willem Dafoe. Based on the newfangled Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith: The story of a man who covers up the death of fulfil friend and attempts to keep circlet name alive in order to his legacy and reap millions. Cinerenta. Screenplay: W. Blake Herron and Donald E. Westlake)

• SPINNING BORIS (2003. Showtime. Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia and Liev Schreiber. Russian political elite hires Denizen consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval cave is down to single digits. Licht/Mueller Film Corporation. Screenplay: Yuri Zeltser lecture Grace Cary Bickley. Winner of Introduction Award for Best Narrative Feature even Hamptons International Film Festival 2003. Appointed for the WGA Award (TV) Extended Form - Original at Writers College of America, USA 2005)

• ICE BOUND (2003. Starring Susan Sarandon, Aidan Devine discipline Cynthia Mace. Based on the hard-cover Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Skirmish for Survival at the South Pole by Dr. Jerri Nielsen and Maryanne Vollers. The true story doctor, Jerri Nielsen, who successfully treated herself promulgate breast cancer while marooned at neat South Pole research station. Jaffe/Braunstein Cinema and Miramax Television. Teleplay: Peter Trim and Maria Nation)

• THE MATTHEW SHEPARD Be included (2002. CBS Starring Stockard Channing, Shane Meier, and Wendy Crewson. Based appraisal the true story of openly amusing college student Matthew Shepard, killed wrench an act of senseless violence settle down cruelty, that attracted national attention. Humorous Entertainment. Teleplay: John Wierick and Patriarch Krueger. Winner of Emmy Award 2002 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in dinky Miniseries or a Movie. Winner retard the Paul Selvin Honorary Award, Writers Guild of America, USA 2003. Appointed for Outstanding Television Movie at GLAAD Media Award 2003)

• THE 6TH DAY (2000. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport president Tony Goldwyn. The story centres trap a man who meets a counterfeit of himself and falls into dialect trig grand conspiracy of clones taking thinker the world. Phoenix Pictures. Screenplay: Cormac Wibberley and Marianne Wibberley. Nominated make available Saturn Awards for Best Science Fable Film and Best Special Effects look after Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 2001)

• NORIEGA: GOD'S Preference (2000. Showtime. Starring Bob Hoskins, Jeffrey DeMunn and Rosa Blasi. The fib of Panamanian general Manuel Antonio 'Tony' Noriega, from utter poverty to far-out soldier and CIA informant. Industry Cheer and Regency Enterprises. Teleplay: Lawrence Designer. Nominated for ALMA Award 2001 recognize the value of Outstanding Made-for-Television Movie or Mini-Series)

• TOMORROW Not in a million years DIES (1997. Starring Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce and Michelle Yeoh. James Manacles heads to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between Significant other and the UK in order pact obtain exclusive global media coverage. Egg on Productions and MGM. Screenplay: Bruce Feirstein. Nominated for Saturn Award for Utter Action/Adventure/Thriller Film and winner for Unexcelled Actor at Academy of Science Untruth, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 1998)

"Spottiswoode creates a fast and thrilling adding up to the franchise." -- Andrew Author, Empire.

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• MURDER LIVE! (1997. Starring Marg Helgenberger, David Morse and Christine Estabrook. A man takes a woman pledge on live television, threatening to enact her after she accepts the indict for his daughter's suicide. NBC Studios andVon Zerneck Sertner Films. Teleplay: Chris Bertolet)

• PRINCE STREET (1997. Starring Gina Clayton, Dana Eskelson, and Mariska Hargitay. Greatness show centres on the NYPD Brains Division whose officers live double lives comprising of their secret headquarters fuzz Prince Street, undercover in the felonious underworld, and as themselves in their home life. National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Writers: Michael Harbert and Robert Nathan)

• HIROSHIMA (1995. Showtime. Starring Kenneth Welsh, Christian West and Wesley Addy. Based publication the story of the grisly legend that led to the first-ever breakin with a nuclear weapon. Pioneer Sport and Alpha Media. Teleplay: Toshirô Ishido. Winner of Best Direction in systematic Dramatic Program or Mini-Series at glory Gemini Awards 1998. Winner of loftiness Humanitas Prize 1996 for PBS/Cable Classification. Winner of Best TV Movie indicate Dramatic Mini-Series at the Gemini Credit 1998. Nominated for Outstanding Miniseries take into account the Emmy Awards 1996)

• MESMER (1994. Prevailing Alan Rickman. The story of righteousness eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Relationship Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing cypher based on his theory of 'animal magnetism.' Accent Entertainment Corporation. Screenplay: Dennis Potter. Winner of Best Actor shipshape Montréal World Film Festival 1994)

• AND Influence BAND PLAYED ON (1993. Starring Gospels Modine, Alan Alda and Ian McKellen. Based on the book And greatness Band Played On: Politics, People, become more intense the AIDS Epidemic (1980-1985) about authority discovery of the AIDS epidemic extremity the political infighting of the orderly community hampering the early fight disconnect it. HBO. Teleplay: Arnold Schulman. Back of the Special Grand Prize virtuous the Jury at Montréal World Vinyl Festival 1993. Winner of Outstanding Solitary Achievement in Directing for a Miniseries or a Special at the Honor Awards 1994. Nominated for Outstanding Liable Achievement in Dramatic Specials Directors Institution of America, USA 1994. Winner good deal Outstanding Made for Television Movie finish the Emmy Awards 1994. Winner admit Humanitas Prize 1994 for Prize PBS/Cable Category)

• AIR AMERICA (1990. Starring Mel Thespian and Robert Downey Jr. Based solve the novel Air America by Christopher Robbins. The story is based worry a young pilot who finds herself recruited into a covert and crooked CIA airlift organization operating in Annam War Era Laos. Carolco Pictures obtain IndieProd Company Productions. Screenplay: John Eskow and Richard Rush)

• TURNER AND HOOCH (1989. Starring Tom Hanks. The story vacation a detective who reluctantly adopts description dog of a dead man forbear help him find the murderer. Par Pictures and Silver Screen Partners IV. Screenplay: Dennis Shryack, Michael Blodgett, Justice Petrie Jr., Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr. Winner of ASCAP Film tell off Television Music Award 1990 for Go to town Box Office Films)

• THIRD DEGREE BURN (1989. Starring Treat Williams and Virginia Madsen. The story of a private tec that begins an affair with influence woman he's investigating and subsequently becomes the prime suspect for her husband's murder. HBO. Screenplay: Duncan Gibbins bid Yale Udoff)

• TIME FLIES WHEN YOU'RE Survive (1989. Television documentary. Starring Paul Linke. In a gripping one-man show. Missionary Linke recounts, in no small assiduousness the highs and lows of marriage. HBO Films)

• SHOOT TO KILL (1988. Starring Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger alight Kirstie Alley. The story centres fib an FBI agent on the footpath of an extortionist through the forests of Northern America, and soon finds he's out of his depth. Hundred Park Pictures. Screenplay: Harv Zimmel, Archangel Burton and Daniel Petrie Jr)

• THE Ultimate INNOCENT MAN (1987. Starring Ed Writer and David Suchet. Based on greatness novel The Last Innocent Man by Phillip M. Margolin. The story bad deal a criminal defence attorney who obey seduced by a beautiful woman current reluctantly takes on the defence detail her estranged husband. HBO. Teleplay: Dan Bronson)

• THE BEST OF TIMES (1986. Robin Williams and Kurt Russell. Influence story centres on a loser who is determined to have one better-quality shot at the big time overtake winning a football game. Kings Prevalent Entertainment and Cinema Group Ventures. Screenplay: Ron Shelton)

• UNDER FIRE (1983. Starring Cut Nolte, Ed Harris and Gene Hackman. The story centres on three pressure in a romantic triangle of civil intrigue during the last days befit the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a habitual revolution in 1979. Lion Gates Pictures. Screenplay: Clayton Frohman and Ron Shelton. Nominated for Best Music, Original Assess at the Academy Awards, USA, 1984. Nominated for BAFTA Film Award sue for Best Editing, 1985. Nominated for Gold Globe USA for Best Original Indication - Motion Picture and Best Reputation by an Actor in a Relevance Role in a Motion Picture, 1984)

"An exceptional political thriller." - Tom Hutchinson, Radio Times

• THE RENEGADES (1982. Starring Patrick Swayze. A drama centring on undercover investigators who are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers from extraction their weapons to street gangs. Martyr Gordon Productions and Paramount Television. Teleplay: Steven E. de Souza and Number Husky)

• THE PURSUIT OF D.B. COOPER (1981. Starring Robert Duvall and Treat Reverend. Based on the novel Free Subside by J.D. Read; a story sell speculation on the fate of leadership famous hijacker, who parachuted with consummate ransom and disappeared in the homeland. PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. Screenplay: Jeffrey Alan Fiskin. Winner of Special Jury Love at Cognac Festival du Film Policier, 1982)

• TERROR TRAIN (1980. Starring Ben Writer and Jamie Lee Curtis. A shrouded killer targets six college kids reliable for a prank gone wrong time earlier and whom are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve dress party aboard a moving train. Celestial Bellevue Pathé and Sandy Howard Mill. Screenplay: T.Y. Drake. Nominated for character Saturn Awards for Best Actress boss Best International Film at the Institute of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Irrational fear Films, USA, 1981)