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Tony Maylam is a Director and Scriptwriter British born on 26 may 1943

Tony Maylam

Tony Maylam
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 26 may 1943 (80 years)

Tony Maylam (Anthony F. Maylam) est un réalisateur britannique né à Londres en 1943. Il est plus spécialement connu pour ses documentaires sportifs, réalisés tant pour le cinéma que pour la télévision, et couronnés par de très nombreux Prix internationaux.

Biography

Formé à la Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, il commence sa carrière comme acteur puis présentateur de télévision pour la ZDF aux Bermudes (The Tony Maylam Show) et au Royaume-Uni pour ITV (Sportsweek) avant de se consacrer entièrement à la réalisation de films.

Son premier film pour le cinéma est Cup Glory en 1972, qui retrace l'histoire des 100 premières années de la FA Cup, avec Richard Attenborough comme narrateur. De nombreux autres films suivirent, comme Graham, avec Paul Newman, et A Fast Drive in the Country avec James Coburn sur l'histoire des 24 heures du Mans. Il réalise ensuite White Rock sur les Jeux Olympiques d'Innsbrück, avec une musique de Rick Wakeman, et nombre d'innovations techniques qui font qu'il est aujourd'hui encore considéré comme une référence essentielle en matière de films sportifs.

Un autre film à très grand succès est Genesis in Concert, avec Phil Collins qu'il tourne, comme d'ailleurs White Rock, en Panavision anamorphique. Il écrit et tourne ensuite sa première fiction, The Riddle of the Sands, une adaptation du roman d'Erskine Childers avec Michael York et Jenny Agutter.

Bob et Harvey Weinstein (ce dernier étant alors un promoteur de musique rock basé dans l'État de New York) achètent ensuite les droits de diffusion de White Rock et de Genesis in concert pour le marché américain. Le succès de ces films leur permet de se lancer dans la production cinématographique. Leur toute première production sera le film réalisé par Tony Maylam, The Burning, devenu un film culte où l'on verra apparaître pour la toute première fois les acteurs Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens et Holly Hunter. Maylam tourna également un film pour la télévision ABC, The Sins of Dorian Gray, avec Anthony Perkins.

Tony Maylam écrit et réalise ensuite le film Hero, film officiel de la Coupe du monde de foot, avec Diego Maradona, un très grand succès mondial.

De retour au Royaume-Uni, Maylam écrit et réalise pour la BBC le film Across the Lake, avec Anthony Hopkins qui, avec un accueil très élogieux des critiques, reste un des plus grands succès de la télévision britannique des années 80.

À côté d'un grand nombre de programmes commerciaux pour des sociétés comme Coca-Cola, Goodyear et Shell, Maylam réalise en 1992 le film de science-fiction Split Second, avec Rutger Hauer un autre grand succès, et la plus grande distribution d'un film indépendant britannique aux États-Unis. En 2001 il écrit et dirige le thriller romantique Phoenix Blue et en 2008 un autre thriller, Journal of a Contract Killer qu'il tourne en Italie et à Londres et qui reçoit au festival de New-York les prix de Meilleure Actrice et de Meilleur Film.

Maylam est aussi l'auteur et le réalisateur de la série Victory by Design (10 documentaires d'une heure) pour la télévision américaine (Speed/FOX TV). Cette série, couronnée par de nombreux prix, poursuit son cours.

Usually with

Tom Savini
Tom Savini
(1 films)
Michael Caine
Michael Caine
(1 films)
Larry Joshua
Larry Joshua
(1 films)
David Janson
David Janson
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Tony Maylam (7 films)

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Director

Journal of a Contract Killer, 1h30
Directed by Tony Maylam
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Heather Bleasdale, David Janson
Rating49% 2.46372.46372.46372.46372.4637
Stephanie Komack was a big-class hooker and assassin for the Italian Mob. She now was working in London as a waitress, and a single mother to her seven-year-old daughter, the Mob tracks Stephanie down and persuade her to do one final job. That when the hit goes wrong and Stephanie soon realises the reality of her failure. They snatch her daughter as punishment, but didn't figure on Stephanie's capacity for revenge. Inspired by true events,
Split Second, 1h30
Directed by Ian Sharp, Tony Maylam
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Environmental films, Films set in the future, Disaster films
Actors Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Alastair Duncan, Michael J. Pollard, Alun Armstrong, Pete Postlethwaite
Rating59% 2.999222.999222.999222.999222.99922
In the year 2008, heavy rainfall has flooded large areas of London. Rookie police officer Dick Durkin (Duncan) is assigned to partner Harley Stone (Hauer), a burnt-out and highly cynical homicide detective who, according to his commanding officer, survives on "anxiety, coffee and chocolate" after being unable to prevent the murder of his partner by a serial killer several years previously. Now however, the murders have begun again and Stone and Durkin are assigned the case. After investigating the scenes of several killings, they appear no closer to identifying the killer, with their only clues being that the murders seem to be linked to the lunar cycle, and that the killer has multiple recombinant DNA strands, having absorbed the DNA of the victims.
The Burning, 1h31
Directed by Tony Maylam
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Transport films, Serial killer films, Road movies
Actors Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer, Jason Alexander, Larry Joshua, Holly Hunter
Rating62% 3.1495453.1495453.1495453.1495453.149545
At Camp Blackfoot, several campers pull a prank on the caretaker, "Cropsy". During the night they sneak into his cabin and set up a wormy skull next to his bed with candles in the eye sockets. When Cropsy is awoken by the campers banging on his window, he is so frightened by the skull that he knocks it onto his bed, where it ignites his sheets and clothes. Aflame, Cropsy leaps from his bed and knocks over a gas tank, causing flames to spread through the cabin. The boys watch in shock as Cropsy, engulfed in flames, stumbles out and falls into a river.
The Riddle of the Sands, 1h39
Directed by Tony Maylam
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Michael York, Simon MacCorkindale, Jenny Agutter, Alan Badel, Michael Sheard, Wolf Kähler
Rating63% 3.196563.196563.196563.196563.19656
Carruthers, an official in the British Foreign Office, is invited on a yachting holiday by his old friend Arthur Davies. Davies explains he has an agenda - while boating around the Frisian Islands he came across an old sailor, Dollman, and his beautiful daughter Clara. He says he believes some men tried to kill him.
Genesis | In Concert, 45minutes
Directed by Tony Maylam
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Phil Collins
Rating78% 3.9447653.9447653.9447653.9447653.944765
Genesis: In Concert est un film de concert de 1977 réalisé et produit par Tony Maylam pour le groupe de rock progressif anglais Genesis. L'enregistrement du film a eu lieu lors de concerts à Glasgow, en Écosse et à Stafford, en Angleterre en 1976.

Scriptwriter

Journal of a Contract Killer, 1h30
Directed by Tony Maylam
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Heather Bleasdale, David Janson
Roles Writer
Rating49% 2.46372.46372.46372.46372.4637
Stephanie Komack was a big-class hooker and assassin for the Italian Mob. She now was working in London as a waitress, and a single mother to her seven-year-old daughter, the Mob tracks Stephanie down and persuade her to do one final job. That when the hit goes wrong and Stephanie soon realises the reality of her failure. They snatch her daughter as punishment, but didn't figure on Stephanie's capacity for revenge. Inspired by true events,
The Burning, 1h31
Directed by Tony Maylam
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Transport films, Serial killer films, Road movies
Actors Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer, Jason Alexander, Larry Joshua, Holly Hunter
Roles Story
Rating62% 3.1495453.1495453.1495453.1495453.149545
At Camp Blackfoot, several campers pull a prank on the caretaker, "Cropsy". During the night they sneak into his cabin and set up a wormy skull next to his bed with candles in the eye sockets. When Cropsy is awoken by the campers banging on his window, he is so frightened by the skull that he knocks it onto his bed, where it ignites his sheets and clothes. Aflame, Cropsy leaps from his bed and knocks over a gas tank, causing flames to spread through the cabin. The boys watch in shock as Cropsy, engulfed in flames, stumbles out and falls into a river.
The Riddle of the Sands, 1h39
Directed by Tony Maylam
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Michael York, Simon MacCorkindale, Jenny Agutter, Alan Badel, Michael Sheard, Wolf Kähler
Rating63% 3.196563.196563.196563.196563.19656
Carruthers, an official in the British Foreign Office, is invited on a yachting holiday by his old friend Arthur Davies. Davies explains he has an agenda - while boating around the Frisian Islands he came across an old sailor, Dollman, and his beautiful daughter Clara. He says he believes some men tried to kill him.