Roger Spottiswoode

Roger Spottiswoode ( born January 5, 1945 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is an American film director British- Canadian origin.

Life

Roger Spottiswoode worked prior to his career as a director as an editor. He earned a reputation as a versatile filmmaker has next to acclaimed works such as Under Fire ( with Nick Nolte and Jean -Louis Trintignant ) and the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (Tomorrow Never Dies ) but also by the critics verrissene action spectacle as Air America and The 6th Day or comedies like Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, starring Sylvester Stallone, and Scott & Hooch, starring Tom Hanks, delivered, as the film Mesmer (1994, with Alan Rickman ), who however never to the cinemas managed ( Actor award at the film festival in Montreal for Rickman ).

In 1993, Spottiswoode at Montreal World Film Festival a Special Grand Prize of the Jury for And the Band Played On. The following year he was nominated for this TV drama at Emmy. In 1998, he won a Gemini Award for his direction in Hiroshima.

Filmography

As a director

As Writer

As an editor