David Greene (director)
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David Greene | |
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Born | Lucius David Syms Brian Lederman 22 February 1921 Manchester, England |
Died | 7 April 2003 Ojai, California, U.S. | (aged 82)
Occupation(s) | Film and television director |
Lucius David Syms-Greene (born Lucius David Syms Brian Lederman; 22 February 1921 – 7 April 2003), known as David Greene, was a British television and film director, and actor.
Early life and career
David Greene was born in
In 1953 Greene emigrated to Toronto, Canada, where he worked in television production with the CBC, including on the acclaimed 1956 television play Flight into Danger. He later moved on to Hollywood, California, United States.[1] Most of his initial films as a director, however, were made and produced back in Britain, and it was only in the mid-1970s that he became firmly established in Hollywood as a filmmaker for television.
Personal life
Greene was married seven times: Margaret Lane (1941–48), Katharine Blake (1948–59), Eileen Grace Jack (1959–70), Thomasina Doreen Patricia Jones (1972–73), Vanessa Linsell (1975–81), Lauren Rickey Greene (1981–2001) and Kelly Greene (2003). Greene was divorced from five of his seven wives. His marriage to Thomasina ended in her death and his seventh ended in his own death of pancreatic cancer three days later. He had one child each with Vanessa Linsell, Thomasina Jones, Eileen Grace Jack and Katharine Blake.
He died aged 82 on 7 April 2003 of pancreatic cancer, in Ojai, California.
Selected filmography
Actor
- Daughter of Darkness (1948)
- The Small Voice (1948)
- The Golden Madonna(1949)
- The Wooden Horse (1950)
- Let's Have a Murder (1950)
- The Dark Light (1951)
Director (feature films)
- The Shuttered Room (1967)
- Sebastian (1968)
- The Strange Affair (1968)
- I Start Counting (1969)
- The People Next Door (1970)
- Madame Sin (1972)
- Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival)[2]
- London Conspiracy (1974) (co-directed with James Hill; released in Italy)[3]
- Gray Lady Down (1978)
- Hard Country (1981)
Director (television films and miniseries)
- Shane (1966), episodes The Great Invasion, Part 1-2 starring David Carradine, Constance Ford, and Bradford Dillman
- Emmy Awardfor Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1975), starring Richard Chamberlain, Kate Nelligan and Tony Curtis
- Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), starring Nick Nolte and Ray Milland (won Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series)
- Roots (1977), starring Lorne Greene and Maya Angelou (won Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series, alongside Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman and Gilbert Moses)
- The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977), starring Lorne Greene and Ben Gazzara
- Friendly Fire (1979), starring Carol Burnett (won Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special)
- A Vacation in Hell (1979), starring Priscilla Barnes
- Rehearsal for Murder (1982), starring Robert Preston and Lynn Redgrave
- Murder Among Friends (1982), starring Sally Kellerman and Leslie Nielsen
- Fatal Vision (1984), starring Karl Malden and Eva Marie Saint
- The Guardian (1984), starring Martin Sheen and Louis Gossett Jr.
- Guilty Conscience (1985), starring Anthony Hopkins and Blythe Danner
- Circle of Violence (1986), starring Tuesday Weld and River Phoenix (won a Wise Owl Award for Outstanding Television Film)
- The Betty Ford Story (1987), starring Gena Rowlands and Josef Sommer
- Jason Robards Jr.
- Liberace: Behind the Music (1988), starring Victor Garber
- Small Sacrifices (1989), starring Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett
- The Penthouse (1989), starring Robin Givens
- In the Best Interest of the Child (1990), starring Meg Tilly
- remake of the 1962 film of the same name.
- Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story (1992), starring Lesley Ann Warren and Dennis Christopher
- Children of the Dust (1995), starring Sidney Poitier
- A Season in Purgatory (1996), starring Patrick Dempsey
- Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops 2 (1997), starring Charles Bronson and Daniel Baldwin
- Bella Mafia (1997), starring Vanessa Redgrave, Nastassja Kinski, Jennifer Tilly and Dennis Farina
References
- All Movie Guide. Archived from the originalon 11 July 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- ^ Vincent Canby (22 March 1973). "Godspell (1973) The Gospel According to 'Godspell' Comes to Screen". The New York Times.
- ^ "London Conspiracy" (1974) imdb.com. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
External links
- David Greene at IMDb