Roger Spottiswoode

Spottiswoode was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and was raised in Britain.^[3] His father Raymond Spottiswoode was a British film theoretician^[4] who worked at the National Film Board of Canada during the 1940s, directing short films such as Wings of a Continent.^{[citation needed]}

In the 1960s, Spottiswoode entered the British film industry as a trainee editor where he apprenticed under editor John Bloom. In the early 1970s Spottiswoode edited several films for Sam Peckinpah.^[5]

He wanted to direct and Walter Hill advised him the best way in was to write a script. Hill and Spottiswoode collaborated on the scripts for 48 Hours and the never-made The Last Gun.^[6]

Spottiswoode turned to directing in the early 1980s and has since directed a number of notable films and television productions, including Under Fire (1983)^[7] and the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies starring Pierce Brosnan.^[8] Spottiswoode was a member of the writing team responsible for 48 Hrs. starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte.^[9] In 2000, he directed the science fiction action thriller The 6th Day starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.^[10]

Film

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Year	Title	Credited as		Notes	Refs.
		Director	Editor
1971	Straw Dogs	No	Yes
1973	Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid	No	Yes
1974	The Gambler	No	Yes
1975	Hard Times	No	Yes
1980	Terror Train	Yes	No		[11]
1981	The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper	Yes	No	Replaced director Buzz Kulik[12]
1982	48 Hrs.	No	No	Writer only; co-written with Walter Hill, Larry Gross & Steven E. de Souza
1983	Under Fire	Yes	No
1986	The Best of Times	Yes	No		[13]
1988	Shoot to Kill	Yes	No		[14]
1989	Turner & Hooch	Yes	No
1990	Air America	Yes	No		[15]
1992	Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot	Yes	No		[16]
1994	Mesmer	Yes	No		[17]
1997	Tomorrow Never Dies	Yes	No
2000	The 6th Day	Yes	No
2003	Spinning Boris	Yes	No		[18]
2005	Ripley Under Ground	Yes	No
2007	Shake Hands with the Devil	Yes	No		[19]
2008	The Children of Huang Shi	Yes	No		[20]
2012	Beyond Right and Wrong	Yes	No	Documentary film; Co-directed with Lekha Singh
2014	The Journey Home	Yes	No	Co-directed with Brando Quilici
2016	A Street Cat Named Bob	Yes	No
2021	Either Side of Midnight	Yes	No

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TV movies

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Year	Title	Notes
1982	The Renegades	TV movie pilot
1987	Third Degree Burn
1989	And the Band Played On
1995	Hiroshima
1997	Murder Live!
2000	Noriega: God's Favorite
2002	The Matthew Shepard Story
2003	Spinning Boris
2003	Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole
2018	The Beach House

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