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Roger Spottiswoode
Born
John Roger Spottiswoode

(1945-01-05) 5 January 1945 (age 79)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada[1]
Nationality
  • Canadian
  • British
Occupation(s)Film director
Film editor
Screenwriter
Years active1966-present
Organization(s)Directors Guild of America
Directors Guild of Canada
Spouse
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(m. 1983; div. 1997)​
Children2
Awards

John Roger Spottiswoode[2] (born 5 January 1945) is a Canadian-British director, editor and writer of film and television.

Early life

He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and was raised in Britain.[3] His father Raymond Spottiswoode was a British film theoretician[4] who worked at the National Film Board of Canada during the 1940s, directing short films such as Wings of a Continent.

Career

In the 1960s, Spottiswoode 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.[5]

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. [6]

Spottiswoode turned to directing in the early 1980s and has since directed a number of notable films and television productions, including Under Fire (1983)[7] and the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies starring Pierce Brosnan.[8] Spottiswoode was a member of the writing team responsible for 48 Hrs. starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte.[9] In 2000, he directed the science fiction action thriller The 6th Day starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.[10]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Notes Refs
1980 Terror Train [11]
1981 The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper Replaced director Buzz Kulik[12]
1983 Under Fire
1986 The Best of Times [13]
1988 Shoot to Kill [14]
1989 Turner & Hooch
1990 Air America [15]
1992 Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot [16]
1994 Mesmer [17]
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies
2000 The 6th Day
2003 Spinning Boris [18]
2005 Ripley Under Ground
2007 Shake Hands with the Devil [19]
2008 The Children of Huang Shi [20]
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

As editor

As writer

Television

Year Title Notes
1982 The Renegades Episode "Pilot"

TV movies

Awards and nominations

Won

Nominated

References

  1. ^ Roger Spottiswoode's bio at www.northernstars.ca
  2. ^ Spottiswoode, John Roger. "Directors Guild of Canada". dgc.ca.
  3. ^ "Making the movies Hollywood doesn't want" by Johanna Schneller at www.theglobeandmail.com
  4. ^ "Criticism: The 1930s: theory and debate" by Geoff Brown at screenonline.org
  5. ^ "All Aboard...If You Dare!: An Interview with Roger Spottiswoode".
  6. ^ Vagg, Stephen (14 July 2020). ""John Wick with spurs" – A look at Walter Hill's Unmade The Last Gun". Diabolique.
  7. ^ "Screen: 'Under Fire'" by Vincent Canby at www.nytimes.com
  8. ^ Tomorrow Never Dies Review by Todd McCarthy at variety.com
  9. ^ "Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy in '48 HOURS'" by Janet Maslin at www.nytimes.com
  10. ^ The 6th Day Review by Todd McCarthy at variety.com
  11. ^ "Spottiswoode's 'Terror Train'" by John Corry (original context from October 3, 1980, Section C, Page 10) at www.nytimes.com
  12. ^ The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper Review - "Begun by director John Frankenheimer, continued by director Buzz Kulik and finally finished by Spottiswoode" at variety.com
  13. ^ "Film: 'Best of Times,' Football Story" by Walter Goodman (original context from January 31, 1986, Section C, Page 20) at www.nytimes.com
  14. ^ Shoot to Kill review at variety.com
  15. ^ Air America review at variety.com
  16. ^ Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot review at variety.com
  17. ^ Mesmer review by Leonard Klady at variety.com
  18. ^ Spinning Boris review by David Rooney at variety.com
  19. ^ Shake Hands With the Devil Review at www.hollywoodreporter.com
  20. ^ "Spottiswoode’s Nanjing drama surfaces" by Etan Vlessing at playbackonline.ca
  21. ^ "‘Trahir’ tops Montreal" by Brendan Kelly at variety.com
  22. ^ "Fest’s big ‘Screen’" by David Rooney at variety.com
  23. ^ 2008 Genie Nominees at www.thestar.com
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