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Christopher Doyle is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Director of Photography and Cinematography Australien born on 2 may 1952 at Sydney (Australie)

Christopher Doyle

Christopher Doyle
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Nationality Australie
Birth 2 may 1952 (72 years) at Sydney (Australie)

Christopher Doyle, also known as Dù Kěfēng (Mandarin) or Dou Ho-Fung (Cantonese) (traditional Chinese: 杜可風; simplified Chinese: 杜可风), born 2 May 1952, is an Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer who often works on Chinese language films. He is an award winner of Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. He has also won the AFI Award for cinematography, the Golden Horse awards (four times), and Hong Kong Film Award (six times). Doyle is an affiliate of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers.

Biography

Doyle was born in Sydney in 1952. In the late 1970s, he went to Taiwan from Hong Kong and then settled in Taipei. While living in Taipei, he studied Mandarin Chinese at the Taipei Language Institute. He worked as an oil driller in India, a cow herder in Israel, and a doctor of Chinese medicine in Thailand. In 1978, he worked as a photographer for the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and Zuni Icosahedron. In 1983, he was a cinematographer for That Day, On the Beach, the feature debut of director Edward Yang. For that film, Doyle won the Best Cinematography Award in the 1983 Asia-Pacific Film Festival.

He has worked with major Chinese directors such as Zhang Yimou, Zhang Yuan and, most notably, Wong Kar-wai, for whom he contributed, wholly or partially, to the cinematography of all his movies from Days of Being Wild through to 2046.

He himself has directed a feature film, Away with Words (aka Kujaku, aka San tiao ren) set in Hong Kong and Okinawa, starring Tadanobu Asano and Mavis Hee, as well as a segment "Porte de Choisy" in the feature film Paris, je t'aime. Doyle is also a photographer.

While his Australian accent is still discernible when he speaks English, he does so with unusual intonations and stops, the result of speaking Cantonese and Mandarin, in which he is fluent, for most of his adult life. He also speaks fluent French. He lives in Hong Kong and his Chinese name is Du Ke Feng which means 'like the wind.'

His music video credits include Six Days for DJ Shadow (directed by Wong Kar-wai), The Strokes' Juicebox (directed by Michael Palmieri), Getaway by the Scottish group Texas (directed by Tim Royes) and Sigur Rós' Gobbledigook (directed by Stefán Árni Þorgeirsson and Sigurður Kjartansson).

Best films

Hero (2002)
(Director of Photography)
The Quiet American (2002)
(Director of Photography)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
(Director of Photography)

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Filmography of Christopher Doyle (69 films)

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Gangster Squad, 1h53
Directed by Ruben Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie
Roles Edgar Beaumont
Rating66% 3.3470253.3470253.3470253.3470253.347025
In 1949 Los Angeles, gangster Mickey Cohen wants to control all organized crime and argues with local mobster Jack Dragna that they should not allow the East coast mafia to run the town. Meanwhile, LAPD Detective Sergeant John "Sarge" O'Mara raids a Cohen-owned brothel to save a woman from being raped, gaining the attention of Police Chief Bill Parker. Parker believes that more drastic measures need to be taken against men like Cohen, and tasks O'Mara to begin waging a guerrilla campaign against the mobsters. He tells O'Mara (a former OSS commando during World War II) to use his special operations training, learned at Camp X during World War II, and to select a small team that will work without badges or official support from the police.
Paranoid Park, 1h25
Directed by Gus Van Sant
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Sports films, Skateboard
Actors Gabe Nevins, Taylor Momsen, Scott Patrick Green, Christopher Doyle, Gus Van Sant
Roles Uncle Tommy
Rating65% 3.299063.299063.299063.299063.29906
Alex (Gabe Nevins), a 16-year-old skateboarder, rides a freight train clandestinely with a man named Scratch (Scott Patrick Green) whom he has just met at the Eastside Skatepark, known as "Paranoid Park". While the train is moving a security guard (John Burrowes) notices the pair, chases after them, and tries to get them off by hitting Scratch with his flashlight. During the melee, Alex hits him with his skateboard and the guard, losing balance, falls onto another track into the path of an oncoming freight train which cuts him in half. Alex tries to destroy some of the evidence. For example, he throws his skateboard into the Willamette River from the Steel Bridge, and when he arrives at his friend Jared's (Jake Miller) house, he showers and disposes of the clothes he had been wearing.
Toolbox Murders, 1h35
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Angela Bettis, Marco Rodríguez, Rance Howard, Juliet Landau, Greg Travis, Adam Weisman
Roles Coffin Baby
Rating53% 2.6543552.6543552.6543552.6543552.654355
Daisy Rain goes to her apartment in the Lusman Arms, a former luxury hotel undergoing renovations, and is beaten to death with a hammer by a man wearing a balaclava. In another room, new tenants Nell and Steven Barrows, a teacher and a medical intern, are introduced to the amenities and a few of the residents by Byron, the building manager. As Steven works long hours, Nell is left alone most of the time, and befriends Julia Cunningham, a neighbor down the hall, and Chas Rooker, an elderly man who reveals some of the history of the structure, mentioning it was made by Jack Lusman, who disappeared mysteriously, and that builders died while working on it.
Treehouse Hostage, 1h31
Directed by Sean McNamara
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Jim Varney, Joey Zimmerman, Todd Bosley, Mark Moses, Debby Boone, Richard Kline
Roles Scalise
Rating52% 2.6070952.6070952.6070952.6070952.607095
Carl Banks (Jim Varney) is a dangerous counterfeiter and escapes from jail. Meanwhile Timmy Taylor (Joey Zimmerman) has a current project due on Monday and if he shows up empty handed he's going to summer school, simply because of his participation in class, and that his teacher and Principal Ott (Richard Kline) hate him.
Andromedia
Andromedia (1998)
, 1h49
Directed by Takashi Miike
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Action
Actors Takako Uehara, Christopher Doyle, Kippei Shiina, Tomorowo Taguchi, Kazuki Kitamura, Naoto Takenaka
Roles Sakkaa / Soccer
Rating47% 2.372832.372832.372832.372832.37283
Hiroko Shimabukuro plays the character of Mai Hitomi, who gives her boyfriend Yuu his first kiss and is promptly hit by a truck. She is then recreated as an AI by her father, a scientist, who had completely scanned ("digitized") her before her death. The film depicts the continuing love between Yuu and the digital copy of Mai, who can only interact across the computer terminal.
The Secret Agent Club, 1h30
Directed by John Murlowski
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Spy films
Actors Hulk Hogan, Lesley-Anne Down, Richard Moll, Barry Bostwick, James Hong, Lyman Ward
Rating34% 1.7185751.7185751.7185751.7185751.718575
Pour tout le monde, Ray Chase (Hulk Hogan) n’est rien de plus qu’un paumé, vendeur de jouets dont la femme est morte il y a quelques années, et son fils unique Jeremy (Matthew McCurley) n’arrive pas à le voir très souvent, car il est toujours absent dans ses « voyages d’affaires ». Ce que personne ne sait, pas même Jeremy, c’est que son père est un agent secret qui voyage partout dans le monde remplir des missions hautement classées top-secret pour une agence de maintien de la paix.
Comrades, Almost a Love Story, 1h58
Directed by Peter Ho-sun Chan
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Maggie Cheung, Leon Lai, Eric Tsang, Christopher Doyle, Irene Tsu, Joe Cheung
Roles Jeremy
Rating80% 4.0451554.0451554.0451554.0451554.045155
The film, spanning years, centers on two Chinese mainlanders who migrate to Hong Kong to make a living, but end up falling in love. Leon Lai plays a naive Northerner, Li Xiao-Jun (T: 黎小軍, S: 黎小军), and Maggie Cheung plays an opportunist/entrepreneur and Cantonese speaker from Guangzhou, Li Qiao (T: 李 翹, S: 李 翘), who takes advantage of mainlanders like herself for financial gains. The loneliness of living in the big city inevitably brings the two into a passionate love affair. But their different ambitions (Li Xiao-Jun wants to bring his fiance to Hong Kong; Li Qiao wants to get rich) mean that they are unable to be together. Eventually, Li Xiao-Jun marries his fiancée, Fang Xiaoting (方小婷) (Yang) in Hong Kong and Li Qiao winds up in a relationship with a mob boss named Ouyang Pao (T: 歐陽豹, S: 欧阳豹, P: Ōuyáng Bào) (Tsang). Li Qiao also becomes a successful entrepreneur, achieving her Hong Kong dream. Despite their seemingly separate lives, however, they are still in love and they have one final tryst in the room they used to share before they are separated again.
Galaxis
Galaxis (1995)
, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Time travel films
Actors Brigitte Nielsen, Richard Moll, Craig Fairbrass, Sam Raimi, Roger Aaron Brown, Fred Asparagus
Roles Seth
Rating36% 1.8182151.8182151.8182151.8182151.818215
According to mythology a gem held dear by individuals generates energy for sustaining vitality. Its existence began at the start of the universe. Villain Kyla (Richard Moll) tries to find the object and utilize its inherent energy to increase his sphere of influence. He successfully obtains the device subsequent to defeating its protectors on the world called Sintaria. Meanwhile protagonist Ladera (Brigitte Nielsen), a freedom fighter with the ability to invisibility, makes her way to Earth to seek out a sister gem to stymie Kyla so he cannot obtain the object. Once there she discovers Jed retrieved the object already from its secure location, however Victor Menendez and his mercenaries also wish to own the device in recompense for monies owed to them by Jed. Ladera dispatches Victor and his minions and in the process protects her friend Jed. Ladera and Jed band together to seek out the first gem in order to thwart the plans of Kyla.
When the Bough Breaks, 1h45
Genres Thriller
Actors Ally Walker, Martin Sheen, Ron Perlman, Tara Subkoff, Robert Knepper, Scott Lawrence
Roles Howard Speckett
Rating59% 2.950732.950732.950732.950732.95073
À Houston, un adolescent trouve une main humaine. L'enquête est confiée au Capitaine Swaggert. Sa hiérarchie lui impose l'agent Audrey Macleahune, une jeune inspectrice spécialisée dans le profilage psychologique des criminels...
Another Stakeout, 1h45
Directed by John Badham
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Rosie O'Donnell, Dennis Farina, Marcia Strassman, Cathy Moriarty
Rating55% 2.799662.799662.799662.799662.79966
A witness against the Mafia is being secretly held until the trial when a violent attempt against her that kills several of her guards, as well as her husband, is made. She disappears and Chris Lecce (Dreyfuss) and Bill Reimers (Estevez) are called upon due to their excellent surveillance record, to stake out a lakeside home where she is believed to be. Unlike their earlier stakeout, this time they are accompanied by Gina Garrett (O'Donnell) from the DA's office and her pet rottweiler 'Archie', covered as husband, wife and son.
The Naked Cage, 1h37
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Shari Shattuck, Angel Tompkins, Faith Minton, Carole Ita White, Larry Gelman, John Terlesky
Rating53% 2.6539852.6539852.6539852.6539852.653985
Une jeune femme est accusée à tort d'une attaque de banque et envoyée dans une prison de haute sécurité tenue par des gardiens corrompus...

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