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David Green is a Director and Executive producer born on 12 november 1948 at London (United-kingdom)

David Green

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Birth 12 november 1948 (75 years) at London (United-kingdom)

David Green is a film director, television producer and media executive.

Green was educated at Bury Grammar School and Trinity College, Oxford, where he gained an MA in English Language and Literature. On graduating, he joined Yorkshire Television where, within a year, he became the youngest ever YTV programme director, cutting his directorial teeth on the launch of Emmerdale, before going on to direct 24 episodes of Whicker's World.

Green is now a leading figure in the British and American film and television industries having worked on motion pictures and TV projects in virtually every genre over the past 25 years. His movie directing credits notably include the Oscar-nominated Buster (4 awards), one of the most iconic British films of all time, starring Phil Collins and Julie Walters, and the $22m action adventure Wings of the Apache starring Nicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones. Touchstone released it in the USA as Fire Birds. His other feature film directing credits include Breathtaking and Car Trouble.

For television, Green has directed over 100 dramas and documentaries, including Boy in the Bubble for ITV, Wilfred and Eileen and East Lynne for BBC Drama, and the award-winning ITV movie 1914 All Out, which was awarded the Public Prize at the Reims Festival of Television. His other TV drama credits include Nobody's House and The Chinese Detective.

From 1992 to 2007 Green was also Chairman and Founder of September Films, a leading film and television production company, with offices in London and Los Angeles, which made over two thousand hours of primetime television, including the landmark Hollywood Women series and September's current flagship show Bridezillas - both of which he created. September's feature films include the Oscar-nominated Solomon & Gaenor (7 awards) and House of America (6 awards). September was also awarded the Montreux Rose D'or for Ozzy Osbourne Uncut. Green was executive producer of all three award-winning productions.

Green joined production and distribution Group DCD Media in 2007 when September Films was acquired by DCD. He took on the role of Group Chief Creative Officer before becoming CEO in 2009 and Executive Chairman in 2012. In October 2012 he relinquished his corporate role to concentrate on addressing the significant revenue and growth potential of the US TV production market for DCD, capitalizing on the success and reputation of September Films in America.

He is a lifelong, passionate supporter of Manchester City Football Club.

Best films

Solomon and Gaenor (1999)
(Executive producer)

Usually with

Dale Dye
Dale Dye
(1 films)
Julie Walters
Julie Walters
(2 films)
Paul Morrison
Paul Morrison
(1 films)
Susannah York
Susannah York
(2 films)
Phil Collins
Phil Collins
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of David Green (7 films)

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Director

Sebastian: When Everybody Knows
Directed by David Green
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Susannah York, Ewa Fröling, Rebecka Hemse, Johanna Sällström
Rating54% 2.702172.702172.702172.702172.70217
16-year-old Sebastian (Hampus Björck) has nice parents and a great circle of friends, is doing well in school, has good looks, and leads a happy life—or at least that is what everyone thinks. Secretly, he has been brooding for some time over the fact that he is in love with his best friend, the rather hunky Ulf (Nicolai Cleve Broch).
Fire Birds
Fire Birds (1990)
, 1h25
Directed by David Green
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Aviation films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young, Mary Ellen Trainor, Dale Dye, Cylk Cozart
Rating47% 2.356822.356822.356822.356822.35682
A joint task force operation between the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Army has been formed to dismantle one of the largest drug cartels operating in South America. Multiple attempts to assault the cartel's mountainous compound have been thwarted by a (fictional) Scorpion-attack helicopter piloted by a mercenary pilot, Eric Stoller (Bert Rhine). After having several aircraft shot down, most notably a pair of UH–60 Black Hawks and their AH–1 Cobra escorts, the army turns to the new AH–64 Apache attack helicopter, which can match its enemies' maneuverability and firepower.
Buster
Buster (1988)
, 1h31
Directed by David Green
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Martin Jarvis, Larry Lamb, Ellie Beaven, Ralph Brown
Rating57% 2.8992852.8992852.8992852.8992852.899285
Buster Edwards is a petty criminal from the East End of 1960s London. His long-suffering pregnant wife June (Julie Walters) thinks of him as a loveable rogue.
Car Trouble
Directed by David Green
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Julie Walters, Ian Charleson, Vincent Riotta, Stratford Johns, Hazel O'Connor, Dave Hill
Rating49% 2.468222.468222.468222.468222.46822
In the throes of a midlife crisis, a man buys a new Jaguar, and it immediately becomes his new love. What he doesn't know is that his wife is as attracted to the Jaguar salesman as he is to the car.
Roots (TV miniseries), 9h30
Directed by Gilbert Moses, Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, David Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors John Amos, Ben Vereen, LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett Jr., Georg Stanford Brown, Leslie Uggams
Rating83% 4.1986154.1986154.1986154.1986154.198615
In The Gambia, West Africa, in 1750 Kunta Kinte is born to Omoro Kinte (Thalmus Rasulala), a Mandinka warrior, and his wife, Binta (Cicely Tyson). When Kunta (LeVar Burton) reaches the age of 15, he and a group of other adolescent boys take part in tribal manhood training, ending with a ceremony, after which they become recognized as men and Mandinka warriors. While trying to carry out a task to catch a bird and take it home unharmed, Kunta sees white men carrying firearms, along with their black collaborators. Later, while fetching wood outside his village to make a drum for his younger brother, Kunta is captured by black collaborators under the direction of white men. He is then sold to a slave trader and placed aboard a ship under the command of Capt. Thomas Davies (Edward Asner) for a three-month journey to Colonial America. During the voyage a group of rebels among the human cargo try but fail to stage a mutiny and to take over the ship.
Sebastian
Sebastian (1968)
, 1h40
Directed by David Greene, David Green
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Susannah York, Lilli Palmer, John Gielgud, Nigel Davenport, Janet Munro
Rating60% 3.048883.048883.048883.048883.04888
Mr. Sebastian is a former Oxford professor, who in the late 60s directs the all-female decoding office of British Intelligence. One day, while running through the streets of Oxford to attend the bestowing of an honorary degree on his friend the Prime Minister, Sebastian runs into Rebecca (Becky) Howard and her jeep. After insulting Sebastian on the spot, Becky is intrigued by him and follows him to the ceremony. After Becky is able to spell her own name backwards, he gives her a phone number to call if she wants an unspecified "job."

Producer

Solomon and Gaenor, 1h45
Directed by Paul Morrison
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Ioan Gruffudd, Nia Roberts, William Thomas, Mark Lewis Jones, Maureen Lipman, David Horovitch
Roles Executive producer
Rating67% 3.3939653.3939653.3939653.3939653.393965
A young Orthodox Jew (Ioan Gruffudd) in 1911 South Wales tries to make his living by peddling fabrics door to door in the South Wales Valleys, but to do so he decides he must hide his ethnicity. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young Gentile woman (Nia Roberts) with a strong-willed father (William Thomas) and a violently anti-Semitic brother (Mark Lewis Jones). The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant, but only then does she learn he is Jewish. Shortly afterwards, the couple become caught up in anti-Jewish disturbances; they are forced to flee and become separated.