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Roger Spottiswoode
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Director, Editor Born: January 5, 1945 in Canada Biography:Filmmaker "Roger Spottiswoode" is a highly competent director of mainstream films. The Canadian-born son of Raymond Spottiswoode, an ex-producer and technical planning officer with the National Film Board of Canada, young Spottiswoode was raised in Britain where he worked as a TV and documentary editor until he edited three "Sam Peckinpah" films "Straw Dogs" (1971), "The Getaway" (1972), and "Pat Garrett" (1973). He continued editing other features and did television work until 1980 when he made his directorial debut with "Terror Train", a typical slasher movie featuring "Jamie Lee Curtis". In 1981, he was one of three directors to work on "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper", and in 1982 he co-wrote "48 Hrs." As a director, Spottiswoode came into his own with the 1983 political thriller "Under Fire", which is one of the few films he was involved with from start to finish. The film earned him international... Full Biography
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