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Also known as Robert Michael Winner

English film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter (1935-2013)

Key facts

Born
Michael Robert Winner , ( 1935-10-30 ) 30 October 1935, Hampstead, London , England
Died
21 January 2013 (2013-01-21) (aged 77), Kensington, London , England
Resting place
Willesden Jewish Cemetery
Other name
Arnold Crust
Alma mater
Downing College, Cambridge
Occupations
Film director and producer , screenwriter , film editor , food writer , media personality
Years active
1955–2013
Spouse
Geraldine Lynton-Edwards, ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2011 ) ​

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Michael
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Hampstead
Occupation
actor
Languages spoken
English language
Image
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unmarried partner
Jenny Seagrove
Commons category
Michael Winner
date of birth
1935-10-30
date of death
2013-01-21
cause of death
liver disease
start of work period
1955-00-00
end of work period
2012-00-00
manner of death
natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview

Michael Robert Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) was a British 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).

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