Ted Kotcheff
Ted Kotcheff ( Ted Kotschew; Bulgarian Тед Кочев; born April 7, 1931 in Toronto, Ontario as William Theodore Kotcheff ) is a Canadian director of Bulgarian descent.
Life and career
Ted Kotcheff began his film career with various television and theater projects in which he directed. In 1957 he came to England, where he made his first film in 1962 Tiara Tahiti with James Mason staged. Many films followed, among others, as the Western Bury the wolves in the canyon with Gregory Peck in the lead role and North Dallas Forty with Nick Nolte. However, the highlight of his career and his most famous film is Rambo from 1982 starring Sylvester Stallone, who counts as a classic of action cinema today. After his works lost rapidly in quality, and he began increasingly to stage films for television and participate in television series. He was, among other things lately active Special Victims Unit: as a producer of the TV crime series Law & Order.