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Heywood Gould is a Director and Scriptwriter American born on 19 december 1942 at New York City (USA)

Heywood Gould

Heywood Gould
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Birth name Heywood Gould
Nationality USA
Birth 19 december 1942 (81 years) at New York City (USA)

Heywood Gould is an American screenwriter, journalist, novelist and film director. He has penned screenplays for such films as Rolling Thunder, The Boys from Brazil, Fort Apache the Bronx, Streets of Gold, Cocktail and directed such films as One Good Cop, Trial by Jury, Mistrial and Double Bang.

Biography

Il naît dans le quartier sensible du Bronx à New York. Il débute comme journaliste pour le New York Post, puis entreprend au début des années 1970 une carrière de romancier et de scénariste pour la télévision et le cinéma. Il exerce en parallèle de nombreux métiers pour gagner sa vie, étant tour à tour chauffeur de taxi, employé dans une entreprise de pompes funèbres, agent d’entretien ou barman, avant de parvenir à vivre de sa plume.

Il publie en 1970 un essai consacré à l’architecte britannique Christopher Wren, puis un premier roman policier intitulé Fort Apache, the Bronx. Il signe quatre romans policiers et est, en 1977, contacté pour travailler avec le prolifique Paul Schrader à l’écriture du scénario du film Légitime Violence. Il adapte seul, l’année suivante, le roman The Boys from Brazil d’Ira Levin pour Franklin Schaffner. Il adapte ensuite son premier roman pour Daniel Petrie qui réalise Le Policeman en 1981.

Il s’inspire de son expérience de barman pour écrire le roman Cocktail qu’il publie en 1984. Il adapte pour le cinéma ce roman qui devient sous la caméra de Roger Donaldson le film Cocktail, avec Tom Cruise dans le rôle principal. Malgré un faible succès critique, le film plaît au public et est un succès commercial.

Il passe à la réalisation en 1991 avec le film policier Un bon flic. Il réalise ensuite les films Trial by Jury en 1994 et Double Bang en 2002, inspiré d’un précédent roman publié en 1988.

Il poursuit actuellement sa carrière de romancier.

Best films

Cocktail (1988)
(Scriptwriter)
Fort Apache, the Bronx (1981)
(Writer)

Usually with

Alison Reid
Alison Reid
(2 films)
Jon Seda
Jon Seda
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Heywood Gould (9 films)

Display filmography as list

Director

Double Bang, 1h39
Directed by Heywood Gould
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors William Baldwin, Jon Seda, Adam Baldwin, Elizabeth Mitchell, Sofia Milos, Richard Portnow
Rating49% 2.466692.466692.466692.466692.46669
A policeman's corrupt partner is killed by a hit man. The policeman gets involved with the criminal gang responsible for the killing in order to seek revenge and to 'bring down' the gang's boss.
Mistrial
Mistrial (1996)
, 1h29
Directed by Heywood Gould
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Bill Pullman, Robert Loggia, Jon Seda, Blair Underwood, Leo Burmester, Roma Maffia
Rating56% 2.800172.800172.800172.800172.80017
After community activist Eddie Rios (Seda), charged with the murder of two NYPD officers, one of them his ex-wife, is found not guilty due to legal technicalities, arresting detective Steve Donohue (Pullman) takes the judge, jury, and Rios hostage, and decides to have a new trial, presenting evidence that was not previously allowed. His captain Lou Unger (Loggia) tries to convince Donohue to end his hostage taking peaceably.
Trial by Jury, 1h47
Directed by Heywood Gould
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Joanne Whalley, Armand Assante, Gabriel Byrne, William Hurt, Kathleen Denise Quinlan, Mike Starr
Rating54% 2.7029152.7029152.7029152.7029152.702915
Crime boss Rusty Pirone (Armand Assante) is about to stand trial again and Daniel Graham (Gabriel Byrne) of the district attorney's office is determined this time to put him behind bars.
One Good Cop, 1h46
Directed by Heywood Gould
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about children
Actors Michael Keaton, Rene Russo, Anthony LaPaglia, Benjamin Bratt, Rachel Ticotin, Kevin Conway
Rating57% 2.898932.898932.898932.898932.89893
Artie Lewis (Keaton) is an NYPD detective who believes in his work, loves his wife Rita (Russo), and is close to his partner Stevie Diroma (LaPaglia), a widower with three young daughters. After a hard, violent encounter in a project while on duty, Artie and Stevie reassure each other that, although battered and bruised, they are "still alive."

Scriptwriter

Double Bang, 1h39
Directed by Heywood Gould
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors William Baldwin, Jon Seda, Adam Baldwin, Elizabeth Mitchell, Sofia Milos, Richard Portnow
Roles Writer
Rating49% 2.466692.466692.466692.466692.46669
A policeman's corrupt partner is killed by a hit man. The policeman gets involved with the criminal gang responsible for the killing in order to seek revenge and to 'bring down' the gang's boss.
Mistrial
Mistrial (1996)
, 1h29
Directed by Heywood Gould
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Bill Pullman, Robert Loggia, Jon Seda, Blair Underwood, Leo Burmester, Roma Maffia
Roles Writer
Rating56% 2.800172.800172.800172.800172.80017
After community activist Eddie Rios (Seda), charged with the murder of two NYPD officers, one of them his ex-wife, is found not guilty due to legal technicalities, arresting detective Steve Donohue (Pullman) takes the judge, jury, and Rios hostage, and decides to have a new trial, presenting evidence that was not previously allowed. His captain Lou Unger (Loggia) tries to convince Donohue to end his hostage taking peaceably.
Trial by Jury, 1h47
Directed by Heywood Gould
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Joanne Whalley, Armand Assante, Gabriel Byrne, William Hurt, Kathleen Denise Quinlan, Mike Starr
Rating54% 2.7029152.7029152.7029152.7029152.702915
Crime boss Rusty Pirone (Armand Assante) is about to stand trial again and Daniel Graham (Gabriel Byrne) of the district attorney's office is determined this time to put him behind bars.
One Good Cop, 1h46
Directed by Heywood Gould
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about children
Actors Michael Keaton, Rene Russo, Anthony LaPaglia, Benjamin Bratt, Rachel Ticotin, Kevin Conway
Roles Writer
Rating57% 2.898932.898932.898932.898932.89893
Artie Lewis (Keaton) is an NYPD detective who believes in his work, loves his wife Rita (Russo), and is close to his partner Stevie Diroma (LaPaglia), a widower with three young daughters. After a hard, violent encounter in a project while on duty, Artie and Stevie reassure each other that, although battered and bruised, they are "still alive."
Cocktail
Cocktail (1988)
, 1h43
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Buddy films
Actors Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Kelly Lynch, Lisa Banes
Rating59% 2.9514952.9514952.9514952.9514952.951495
After leaving the United States Army and moving to New York City, Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) gets a part-time job as a bartender at night while studying for a business degree. Over time, he learns the tricks of the trade, including flairing, from his boss/mentor Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown). Brian and Doug soon become very close; Doug readily assumes a mentor role over the young and naive Brian, and rains advice and opinions down upon him. His advice takes a familiar structure, as he usually begins most of them with "Coughlin's Law".
Streets of Gold, 1h35
Directed by Joe Roth
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Political films
Actors Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adrian Pasdar, Wesley Snipes, Elya Baskin, John Mahoney, Ángela Molina
Roles Ecrivain
Rating58% 2.9497352.9497352.9497352.9497352.949735
Alik is an immigrant from the Soviet Union, but is not allowed on the Soviet national team because he is Jewish. One day he meets two young amateur boxers named Roland Jenkins and Timmi Boyle and begins to coach them.
Fort Apache, the Bronx, 2h5
Directed by Daniel Petrie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Action, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Paul Newman, Edward Asnere, Ken Wahl, Danny Aiello, Rachel Ticotin, Kathleen Beller
Roles Writer
Rating66% 3.3478353.3478353.3478353.3478353.347835
Police officers face many challenges in the decayed South Bronx region of New York City. Among them are NYPD officers Murphy (Newman) and Corelli (Wahl), who work out of the 41st precinct, nicknamed "Fort Apache" because to those who work there, it feels like an army outpost in foreign territory (an allusion to Fort Apache out of the Old West).
The Boys from Brazil, 2h3
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Clonage, Films based on science fiction novels, Hitler, Political films
Actors Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Steve Guttenberg, Denholm Elliott
Rating69% 3.497953.497953.497953.497953.49795
Young, well-intentioned Barry Kohler (Steve Guttenberg) stumbles upon a secret organization of Third Reich war criminals holding clandestine meetings in Paraguay and finds that Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck), the infamous Auschwitz doctor, is with them. He phones Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), an aging Nazi hunter living in Vienna, Austria, with this information. A highly skeptical Lieberman tries to brush Kohler's claims aside, telling him that it is already well known that Mengele is living in Paraguay.
Rolling Thunder, 1h35
Directed by John Flynn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Political films
Actors William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, James Best, Linda Haynes, Dabney Coleman, Luke Askew
Roles Writer
Rating68% 3.4493.4493.4493.4493.449
In 1973, Major Charles Rane (William Devane) returns home to San Antonio with Master Sergeant Johnny Vohden (Tommy Lee Jones), and two other soldiers, after spending seven years as a POW in Hanoi. He finds a home very different from the one he left when he meets his wife Janet (Lisa Blake Richards), his son Mark (Jordan Gerler), and local policeman Cliff (Lawrason Driscoll), waiting to drive him home. Rane soon realizes that his son doesn't remember him, and that Cliff seems overly familiar with Janet and Mark. Janet admits that she has become engaged to Cliff and has no plans to break it off, despite still having feelings for Rane. Rane stoically accepts this, but privately reacts by self-imposing the same institutionalized daily regime he had in captivity.