FILM DIRECTOR

Roger Donaldson

1945 - Today

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Roger Lindsey Donaldson (born 15 November 1945) is an Australian and New Zealand film director, screenwriter, and producer. His 1977 debut film, Sleeping Dogs, is considered landmark work of New Zealand cinema, as one of the country’s first films to attract large-scale critical and commercial success. He has subsequently directed 17 feature films, working in Hollywood and the United Kingdom, as well as his native country. Donaldson’s best-known films include the historical drama The Bounty (1984), the neo-noir No Way Out (1987), the romantic comedy Cocktail (1988), the Cuban Missile Crisis docudrama Thirteen Days (2000), the science-fiction horror film Species (1995), the disaster film Dante's Peak (1997), the Burt Munro biopic The World's Fastest Indian (2005), and the historical thriller The Bank Job (2008). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roger Donaldson is the 645th most popular film director (down from 575th in 2019), the 121st most popular biography from Australia (down from 86th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Australian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Roger Donaldson ranks 645 out of 2,041. Before him are Robert Enrico, Géza von Radványi, Jean-Daniel Cadinot, Segundo de Chomón, Kenneth Anger, and Majid Majidi. After him are Paul Scheuring, Richard Linklater, Roger Spottiswoode, Maurice Tourneur, Keisuke Kinoshita, and Paul Grimault.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Roger Donaldson ranks 277. Before him are Larry Tesler, Sylvester Levay, Cem Karaca, John Doman, Anselm Grün, and John Perkins. After him are Polad Bülbüloğlu, Martin Hellman, Noel Redding, Roger Spottiswoode, Ali Akbar Velayati, and Rita Coolidge.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Roger Donaldson ranks 121 out of 1,143. Before him are Claire Holt (1988), Bob Hewitt (1940), Neil Robertson (1982), Kevin Rudd (1957), Terence Tao (1975), and Mark Evans (1956). After him are Norman Thomas Gilroy (1896), Baz Luhrmann (1962), Ron Clarke (1937), John Farrow (1904), Jacki Weaver (1947), and Mervyn Rose (1930).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Australia

Among film directors born in Australia, Roger Donaldson ranks 3. Before him are George Miller (1945), and Peter Weir (1944). After him are Baz Luhrmann (1962), John Farrow (1904), Christopher Doyle (1952), Russell Mulcahy (1953), Bruce Beresford (1940), Phillip Noyce (1950), John Seale (1942), Fred Schepisi (1939), and John Pilger (1939).

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