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Roger Spottiswoode is a Director, Scriptwriter, Associate Producer and Editor British born on 5 january 1945 at Ottawa (Canada)

Roger Spottiswoode

Roger Spottiswoode
Roger Spottiswoode participated to 35 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 5 have good markets following the box office.

Here are the best films classified by number of entries :

Director

Tomorrow Never Dies, 1h59
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films about writers, Films about children, Spy films, Films about journalists, Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Motocyclette, Robot films
Actors Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Judi Dench, Desmond Llewelyn
Rating64% 3.2492753.2492753.2492753.2492753.249275
MI6 sends James Bond, agent 007, into the field to spy on a terrorist arms bazaar on the Russian border. Via television, MI6 and the Royal Navy identify several wanted men, including the American "techno-terrorist" Henry Gupta, who is buying a GPS encoder made by the US military. Despite M's insistence to let 007 finish his reconnaissance, British Admiral Roebuck launches a missile attack on the arms bazaar. Bond then discovers two Soviet nuclear torpedoes mounted on an L-39 Albatros, and as the missile is too far along to be aborted, 007 hijacks the L-39 and flies away seconds before the bazaar is struck. Amidst the confusion, Gupta escapes with the encoder.

Scriptwriter

Another 48 Hrs., 1h33
Directed by Walter Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James, Kevin Tighe, Ed O'Ross, Andrew Divoff
Roles Characters
Rating59% 2.9508052.9508052.9508052.9508052.950805
San Francisco cop Jack Cates is at the Hunter's Point Raceway checking out a known associate of the Iceman, Tyrone Burroughs, who for unknown reasons is giving some money to mechanic Arthur Brock.
48 Hrs.
48 Hrs. (1982)
, 1h36
Directed by Walter Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly
Roles Writer
Rating68% 3.448153.448153.448153.448153.44815
Convicted thief Albert Ganz is working as part of a road gang in California, when a big Native American man named Billy Bear drives up in a pickup truck and asks for water to cool off his truck’s overheating radiator. Ganz and Billy exchange insults and proceed to stage a fight with each other, wrestling in a river, and when the guards try to break up the fight, Billy slips a gun to Ganz, and Billy and Ganz kill two of the three guards and flee the scene. Two days later, Ganz and Billy kill Henry Wong (John Hauk), who was one of their partners.

Director

Turner & Hooch, 1h37
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, Reginald VelJohnson, J. C. Quinn, Scott Paulin
Rating62% 3.1012253.1012253.1012253.1012253.101225
Scott Turner (Tom Hanks) is an obsessively neat police investigator who is bored with his minor police work in the fictional town of Cypress Beach in Northern California and is set to transfer to a better job in Sacramento, while fellow investigator David Sutton (Reginald VelJohnson) is to be his replacement. As Scott shows David around, we meet local junk-yard owner Amos Reed (John McIntire), who is Scott’s friend and owner of Hooch (Beasley the Dog), a large and slobbery Dogue de Bordeaux.
Under Fire
Under Fire (1983)
, 2h8
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Politique, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Ed Harris, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Richard Masur
Rating69% 3.496013.496013.496013.496013.49601
Au Nicaragua en 1979, le journaliste-photographe Russell Price couvre la guerre civile opposant les sandinistes au président Anastasio Somoza. Ses amis, le chef d'antenne Alex Grazier et la journaliste de la radio Claire, l'accompagnent. Au moment où ils arrivent, les sandinistes frappent même jusque dans la capitale, Managua. Au fil des jours, Russell en vient à se poser des questions sur la façon de couvrir cette guerre, lorsqu'il prend conscience de la brutalité de l'armée somoziste vis-à-vis de la population. Lui et Claire sont bientôt approchés par les sandinistes afin de photographier Rafael, leur leader, dont le gouvernement nicaraguayen vient d'annoncer la mort. Rafael est en réalité bel et bien mort, mais les guérilleros veulent démontrer, par une photographie, qu'il est toujours vivant afin de finir la guerre à leur avantage. Après quelques hésitations, Russell accepte et, le lendemain, la photo du chef sandiniste est diffusée dans tout le pays, ce qui déstabilise quelque peu le gouvernement Somoza. Le régime commence à se poser des questions sur la neutralité de la presse. Alex Grazier est bientôt arrêté puis abattu par la Guardia. Russell Price, qui a réussi à photographier l'assassinat, parvient à rendre publiques les photos et le gouvernement américain abandonne toute aide au régime somoziste. Les sandinistes entrent en vainqueurs à Managua et le dictateur fuit le pays.