FILM DIRECTOR

Michael Winner

1935 - 2013

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Michael Robert Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) was an English filmmaker, writer, and media personality. He is known for directing numerous action, thriller, and black comedy films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, including several collaborations with actors Oliver Reed and Charles Bronson. Winner's best-known works include Death Wish (1974) and its first two sequels Death Wish II (1982) and Death Wish 3 (1985), the World War II comedy Hannibal Brooks (1969), the hitman thriller The Mechanic (1972), the supernatural horror film The Sentinel (1977), the neo-noir The Big Sleep (1978), the satirical comedy Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976), and the Revisionist Westerns Lawman (1971) and Chato's Land (1972). Winner was known as a media personality in the United Kingdom, appearing regularly on television talk programmes and publishing a restaurant review column for The Sunday Times. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Winner is the 1,081st most popular film director (down from 870th in 2019), the 3,944th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,999th in 2019) and the 81st most popular British Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Michael Winner ranks 1,081 out of 2,041. Before him are Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Ritwik Ghatak, Mikhail Kozakov, Kihachi Okamoto, Ivan Perestiani, and Ronny Yu. After him are Gregory La Cava, Robert Parrish, David Cherkassky, Štefan Uher, Gaston Kaboré, and Christopher Landon.

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Among people born in 1935, Michael Winner ranks 359. Before him are Elisabeth Rehn, Gary Player, Jeremy Kemp, Lee Meriwether, Märta Tikkanen, and Moisés Solana. After him are Rudi Hoffmann, Kiki Kogelnik, Henning Enoksen, Marco Coll, Ali Al-Naimi, and Ervin Zádor. Among people deceased in 2013, Michael Winner ranks 328. Before him are Hal Needham, Pyotr Todorovsky, Ann-Britt Leyman, Valeri Zolotukhin, Boris Vasilyev, and Marcia Wallace. After him are Hassan Habibi, Jean Stapleton, Mirja Hietamies, Stanisław Nagy, Kenojuak Ashevak, and Danièle Dupré.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Winner ranks 3,945 out of 8,785. Before him are Peter Whitehead (1914), Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer (1897), Grace Chisholm Young (1868), Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628), Robert Lindsay (1890), and Wilfrid Hyde-White (1903). After him are Billy Hughes (1862), Ælfric of Eynsham (955), Fred Frith (1949), Mary Garden (1874), Mortimer Wheeler (1890), and Georges Passerieu (1885).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Michael Winner ranks 81. Before him are Martin McDonagh (1970), Steven Knight (1959), Jonathan Nolan (1976), Gareth Evans (1980), Charles Jarrott (1927), and Mike Figgis (1948). After him are Duncan Jones (1971), Jon Amiel (1948), Benjamin Glazer (1887), Edgar Wright (1974), Roy Ward Baker (1916), and Mark Herman (1954).

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