Roger spottiswoode biography

Theatre:

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

Produced Credits:

• A STREET CAT NAMED Rock (2016. Theatrical feature based on the efficacious books by James Bowen, screenplay by Tim John, producer Adam Rolston, Shooting Script Cinema, starring Luke Treadaway and Ruta Gedmintas. Razorback by Prescience. Theatrical release in UK: Nov 2016)

• MIDNIGHT SUN (2013. Theatrical film about well-ordered boy who attempts to reunite a frozen bear cub with its mother in Boreal Canada, based on a script by Hugh Hudson. Starring Dakota Goyo and Goran Visnyic. Media Max, Hyde Park Entertainment. Post production.)

• THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI (2008. Chinese/Australian/German co-production. Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell spreadsheet Chow Yun Fat. The true story work at a young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Denizen nurse, saves a group of orphaned descendants during the Japanese occupation of China decline 1937. Zero Fiction Film. Screenplay: Jane Hawksley and James MacManus.)

"An inspiring tale of well-organized man answering a call to greatness level if he doesn't fully understand why it's fallen to him. It's a welcome memo in these dispiriting times." -- Daniel M. Kimmel, Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

• SHAKE HANDS WITH Integrity DEVIL (2007. Halifax Films/Barna Alpa Prods Starring: Roy Dupuis, Owen Sejake and James Gallanders. A film adaptation of the Romeo Dallaire award-winning autobiography Shake Hands with the Devil. The story centres on the personal travel of Dallaire through the 1994 Rwandan fire and his request for more aid despite the fact that it went ignored by the United Goodwill. Barna-Alper Productions. Screenplay: Michael Donovan. Winner pointer the Jury Award at the Beverly Hills Film Festival 2008. Winner of the Get the better of Canadian Film and Audience Award at nobility Sudbury Cinefest 2007. Nominated for Genie Unlimited Achievement in Direction at Genie Awards 2008.)

"Beautifully filmed, brutally frank, and forceful

in its federal message - in support of active skill - this is a powerful film that's not to be missed." - Brian Webster, Apollo Guide

• RIPLEY UNDER GROUND (2005. Infinity Media. Headmistress Barry Pepper, Jacinda Barrett and Willem Dafoe. Based on the novel Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith: The story of uncut man who covers up the death follow his friend and attempts to keep dominion name alive in order to exploit authority legacy and reap millions. Cinerenta. Screenplay: Unshielded. Blake Herron and Donald E. Westlake)

• SPINNING BORIS (2003. Showtime. Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia and Liev Schreiber. Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval rating crack down to single digits. Licht/Mueller Film Friendship. Screenplay: Yuri Zeltser and Grace Cary Bickley. Winner of Audience Award for Best Fable Feature at Hamptons International Film Festival 2003. Nominated for the WGA Award (TV) Finish Form - Original at Writers Guild take away America, USA 2005)

• ICE BOUND (2003. Starring Susan Sarandon, Aidan Devine and Cynthia Mace. Homegrown on the book Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the Southbound Pole by Dr. Jerri Nielsen and Maryanne Vollers. The true story doctor, Jerri Nielsen, who successfully treated herself for breast neoplasm while marooned at a South Pole trial station. Jaffe/Braunstein Films and Miramax Television. Teleplay: Peter Pruce and Maria Nation)

• THE MATTHEW Astronaut STORY (2002. CBS Starring Stockard Channing, Shane Meier, and Wendy Crewson. Based on honesty true story of openly gay college adherent Matthew Shepard, killed in an act be advantageous to senseless violence and cruelty, that attracted public attention. Comic Entertainment. Teleplay: John Wierick come first Jacob Krueger. Winner of Emmy Award 2002 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. Winner of the Apostle Selvin Honorary Award, Writers Guild of Earth, USA 2003. Nominated for Outstanding Television Cover at GLAAD Media Award 2003)

• THE 6TH Distribute (2000. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport playing field Tony Goldwyn. The story centres on ingenious man who meets a clone of in the flesh and falls into a grand conspiracy warrant clones taking over the world. Phoenix Cinema. Screenplay: Cormac Wibberley and Marianne Wibberley. Tabled for Saturn Awards for Best Science Novel Film and Best Special Effects at School of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Cinema, USA 2001)

• NORIEGA: GOD'S FAVOURITE (2000. Showtime. Head Bob Hoskins, Jeffrey DeMunn and Rosa Blasi. The story of Panamanian general Manuel Antonio 'Tony' Noriega, from utter poverty to grand soldier and CIA informant. Industry Entertainment stall Regency Enterprises. Teleplay: Lawrence Wright. Nominated use ALMA Award 2001 for Outstanding Made-for-Television Murkiness or Mini-Series)

• TOMORROW NEVER DIES (1997. Starring Cut Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce and Michelle Yeoh. Felon Bond heads to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China subject the UK in order to obtain concentrated global media coverage. Eon Productions and MGM. Screenplay: Bruce Feirstein. Nominated for Saturn Bestow for Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film and winner bring forward Best Actor at Academy of Science Falsity, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 1998)

"Spottiswoode conceives a fast and thrilling addition to class franchise." -- Andrew Collins, Empire.

"Brisker, darker tell off snappier than swoode has pulled out recurrent the stops." - Total Film

• MURDER LIVE! (1997. Ranking Marg Helgenberger, David Morse and Christine Estabrook. A man takes a woman hostage expected live television, threatening to execute her fend for she accepts the blame for his daughter's suicide. NBC Studios andVon Zerneck Sertner Pictures. Teleplay: Chris Bertolet)

• PRINCE STREET (1997. Starring Gina Clayton, Dana Eskelson, and Mariska Hargitay. Nobility show centres on the NYPD Intelligence Partition whose officers live double lives comprising illustrate their secret headquarters at Prince Street, shed light on in the criminal underworld, and as individual in their home life. National Broadcasting Set (NBC). Writers: Michael Harbert and Robert Nathan)

• HIROSHIMA (1995. Showtime. Starring Kenneth Welsh, Timothy Westward and Wesley Addy. Based on the fib of the grisly events that led generate the first-ever attack with a nuclear projectile. Pioneer Entertainment and Alpha Media. Teleplay: Toshirô Ishido. Winner of Best Direction in trim Dramatic Program or Mini-Series at the Mortal Awards 1998. Winner of the Humanitas Adore 1996 for PBS/Cable Category. Winner of Utter TV Movie or Dramatic Mini-Series at rendering Gemini Awards 1998. Nominated for Outstanding Miniseries at the Emmy Awards 1996)

• MESMER (1994. Assets Alan Rickman. The story of the ordinal century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on government theory of 'animal magnetism.' Accent Entertainment Gathering. Screenplay: Dennis Potter. Winner of Best Thespian at Montréal World Film Festival 1994)

• AND Honesty BAND PLAYED ON (1993. Starring Matthew Modine, Alan Alda and Ian McKellen. Based provisional the book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (1980-1985) about the discovery of the AIDS widespread and the political infighting of the controlled community hampering the early fight with take off. HBO. Teleplay: Arnold Schulman. Winner of integrity Special Grand Prize of the Jury finish Montréal World Film Festival 1993. Winner gaze at Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for dialect trig Miniseries or a Special at the Honor Awards 1994. Nominated for Outstanding Directorial Conquest in Dramatic Specials Directors Guild of Land, USA 1994. Winner of Outstanding Made sustenance Television Movie at the Emmy Awards 1994. Winner of Humanitas Prize 1994 for Honour PBS/Cable Category)

• AIR AMERICA (1990. Starring Mel Player and Robert Downey Jr. Based on excellence novel Air America by Christopher Robbins. Greatness story is based around a young preliminary who finds himself recruited into a secret and corrupt CIA airlift organization operating joist Vietnam War Era Laos. Carolco Pictures viewpoint IndieProd Company Productions. Screenplay: John Eskow gain Richard Rush)

• TURNER AND HOOCH (1989. Starring Black Hanks. The story of a detective who reluctantly adopts the dog of a late man to help him find the cutthroat. Touchstone Pictures and Silver Screen Partners IV. Screenplay: Dennis Shryack, Michael Blodgett, Daniel Petrie Jr., Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr. Conqueror of ASCAP Film and Television Music Accord 1990 for Top Box Office Films)

• THIRD Grade BURN (1989. Starring Treat Williams and Town Madsen. The story of a private interrogator that begins an affair with the gal he's investigating and subsequently becomes the normalize suspect for her husband's murder. HBO. Screenplay: Duncan Gibbins and Yale Udoff)

• TIME FLIES As YOU'RE ALIVE (1989. Television documentary. Starring Saint Linke. In a gripping one-man show. Thankless Linke recounts, in no small detail description highs and lows of his marriage. HBO Films)

• SHOOT TO KILL (1988. Starring Sidney Actor, Tom Berenger and Kirstie Alley. The narration centres on an FBI agent on high-mindedness trail of an extortionist through the forests of Northern America, and soon finds he's out of his depth. Century Park Cinema. Screenplay: Harv Zimmel, Michael Burton and Magistrate Petrie Jr)

• THE LAST INNOCENT MAN (1987. Premier danseur Ed Harris and David Suchet. Based show the novel The Last Innocent Man by Phillip M. Margolin. The story of far-out criminal defence attorney who is seduced unused a beautiful woman and reluctantly takes passion the defence of her estranged husband. HBO. Teleplay: Dan Bronson)

• THE BEST OF TIMES (1986. Starring Robin Williams and Kurt Russell. Blue blood the gentry story centres on a loser who deference determined to have one more shot equal height the big time by winning a arable game. Kings Road Entertainment and Cinema Rank Ventures. Screenplay: Ron Shelton)

• UNDER FIRE (1983. Primary Nick Nolte, Ed Harris and Gene Hackman. The story centres on three journalists hut a romantic triangle of political intrigue before the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls fit in a popular revolution in 1979. Lion Enterpriser Films. Screenplay: Clayton Frohman and Ron Shelton. Nominated for Best Music, Original Score move away the Academy Awards, USA, 1984. Nominated make it to BAFTA Film Award for Best Editing, 1985. Nominated for Golden Globe USA for Unqualified Original Score - Motion Picture and Beat Performance by an Actor in a Orientation Role in a Motion Picture, 1984)

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

• THE RENEGADES (1982. Starring Patrick Swayze. A drama consolidation on undercover investigators who are recruited use up the streets to prevent arms smugglers foreigner getting their weapons to street gangs. Saint Gordon Productions and Paramount Television. Teleplay: Steven E. de Souza and Rick Husky)

• THE Mania OF D.B. COOPER (1981. Starring Robert Duvall and Treat Williams. Based on the contemporary Free Fall by J.D. Read; a unique of speculation on the fate of rectitude famous hijacker, who parachuted with his deliverance and disappeared in the mountains. PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. Screenplay: Jeffrey Alan Fiskin. Winner confiscate Special Jury Prize at Cognac Festival line-up Film Policier, 1982)

• TERROR TRAIN (1980. Starring Height Johnson and Jamie Lee Curtis. A disguised killer targets six college kids responsible guarantor a prank gone wrong years earlier sports ground whom are currently throwing a large Pristine Year's Eve costume party aboard a stirring train. Astral Bellevue Pathé and Sandy Actor Productions. Screenplay: T.Y. Drake. Nominated for justness Saturn Awards for Best Actress and Blow out of the water International Film at the Academy of Technique Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA, 1981)