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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: October 30, 1935 in London, England, UK Biography:A one-time Cambridge law student, British director "Michael Winner" had been geared toward a cinematic career since the age of 16, when he began writing entertainment criticism. His earliest directorial assignments were for the BBC; he entered films as the screenwriter for a brace of programmers, Climb up the Wall and "Shoot to Kill" (both 1960). Adapting many of the quick-cut, freeze-frame, hand-held techniques popularized by "Richard Lester", Winner became typed as a "swinging" director of hip, youthful projects. Although he was virtually a youngster himself, Winner's basic point-of-view was middle-aged conformist. The oh-so-clever young characters in "You Must Be Joking" (1965), "The Jokers" (1967), and "I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name" (1969) are depicted as shallow, status-seeking snots, no better than the adults whom they claim to despise. Transferring his base of operations to Hollywood,... Full Biography
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