Michael Winner
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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
- Michael Winner cropped.jpg
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- unmarried partner
- Jenny Seagrove
- Commons category
- Michael Winner
- date of birth
- 1935-10-30
- date of death
- 2013-01-21
- place of burial
- Willesden Jewish Cemetery
- cause of death
- liver disease
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Michael Winner
- 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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