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Michael Winner

1935 - 2013

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Michael Robert Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) was an English 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). Winner was known as a media personality in the United Kingdom, appearing regularly on television talk programmes and publishing a restaurant review column for The Sunday Times. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Winner is the 870th most popular film director, the 2,999th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 66th most popular British Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Michael Winner ranks 870 out of 2,041. Before him are Eugeniusz Bodo, Wolfgang Becker, Kim Ki-young, Eli Roth, Jeannot Szwarc, and Charles Crichton. After him are Jack Clayton, Yevgeni Bauer, Esfir Shub, Nicolas Winding Refn, Jonathan Nolan, and Ennio de Concini.

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Among people born in 1935, Michael Winner ranks 279. Before him are Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Tarcísio Meira, Brian G. Hutton, Karen Spärck Jones, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Ronald Lacey. After him are Katalin Szőke, Pjetër Arbnori, Gary Peacock, Gundi Busch, Elisabeth Rehn, and Jacques Gaillot. Among people deceased in 2013, Michael Winner ranks 271. Before him are Alla Kushnir, Roman Vlad, Ed Koch, Domenico Bartolucci, Krsto Papić, and Virginia E. Johnson. After him are Princess Margarita of Baden, Bobby Bland, Anthony Caro, Vincenzo Cerami, Diane Disney Miller, and Antonio Roma.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Winner ranks 2,999 out of 8,785. Before him are John Robison (1739), Jimmy Johnstone (1944), Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (1405), Piers Morgan (1965), Ronald Lacey (1935), and Charles Crichton (1910). After him are Jack Clayton (1921), Richard Dadd (1817), Derek Bell (1941), William Langland (1332), Rowland Hill (1795), and Timothy Laurence (1955).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Michael Winner ranks 66. Before him are Edmund Goulding (1891), Matthew Vaughn (1971), Mick Jackson (1943), Ronald Neame (1911), Steven Knight (1959), and Charles Crichton (1910). After him are Jack Clayton (1921), Jonathan Nolan (1976), Martin McDonagh (1970), Anthony Harvey (1930), Jack Cardiff (1914), and Benjamin Glazer (1887).

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