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Renny Harlin
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Director, Producer, Executive Producer Born: March 15, 1959 in Helsinki, Finland Biography:Finnish director "Renny Harlin" did not come from an artistically inclined family (his parents were in the medical profession), but Harlin himself had determined his future before he was 12, via extensive use of a home movie camera. Harlin was a twenty-ish film school graduate when he set up his own production company; while he was fairly successful marketing documentaries and commercial shorts, young Harlin could not get anyone in Finland to bankroll him for a feature. He moved to the presumably greener pastures of Hollywood, where he finally realized his goal with the 1986 feature "Born American".
Harlan's direction of 1990's "Die Hard 2" seemed to bode well for steady work in action films; unfortunately, his next effort (released the same month as "Die Hard 2") was the ill-fated "Andrew Dice Clay" vehicle "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane" (1990). The collapse of this enterprise resulted in reams... Full Biography
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