Gil Junger
Gilbert Junger ( born November 7, 1954 in New York City, New York ) is an American film director and producer. In his 30-year television career, he supervised many productions, movies, episodes and series. He became internationally known after all the movies 10 Things I Hate About You, Knight Jamal - A black comedy and If Only.
Life and career
Gil Junger was born in New York City in 1954. After graduating as a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin's radio, TV, and Film School, he went to Hollywood in the early 1980s. He began in 1982 as a producer in television, expanded its field of activity, however, the mid-1980s soon to the function of the director with numerous works in the field of popular TV series. For the episode The Puppy of the U.S. series Ellen, he was nominated for the 1997 Primetime Emmy in 1998 and received another nomination from the Directors Guild of America.
In 1999 he succeeded with the film comedy 10 Things I Hate About You, Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles and Joseph Gordon -Levitt. Starring, also successfully jump to the movies The film's success led in 2009 and 2010 to a private television series of the same title, she had the extent of 20 episodes where Young also took on the director's chair. 2001 was the comedy Knight Jamal - A black comedy in the cast, Martin Lawrence, Marsha Thomason and Tom Wilkinson. In 2004 he directed the film If Only as modern romantic tragicomedy with elements of Mhystischen. The main characters are Jennifer Love Hewitt, Paul Nicholls and again the actor Tom Wilkinson played. Young realized the film as a British- American co - production and acted alongside his work as a director in addition to being a producer. The film music by the English composer Adrian Johnston.
Following on from the major international commercial success of 10 Things I Hate About You is a production called 10 Things I Hate About Life in preparation.
Awards
Filmography (selection)
As a director,
As a producer,
- 2004: If Only