John Irvin

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John Irvin
Born (1940-05-07) 7 May 1940 (age 83)
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Alma materLondon Film School
OccupationFilm director
Years active1963–present

John Irvin (born 7 May 1940) is an English film director.

adaptation of John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He made several Hollywood films in the 1980s, including The Dogs of War (1980), Ghost Story (1981) and Hamburger Hill
(1987).

Irvin is a graduate of London Film School.

Career

Irvin directed his first films in the 1960s, such as the

ITV Playhouse and did the adaptation of Charles Dickens's Hard Times
series.

In the 1980s, Irvin made

North Vietnamese Army position. Irvin then directed Next of Kin (1989), an action film starring Patrick Swayze
about a police officer who starts a clan feud against a Mafia family to exact revenge for his brother's death.

In the 1990s, Irvin directed

Noah's Ark
(1999).

In the 2000s, Irvin directed

The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha (2005) and The Moon and the Stars (2007). Irvin released The Garden of Eden (2008), starring Mena Suvari and Jack Huston
.

Irvin appears as himself in the documentary feature The Writer with No Hands (2014), talking about the screenwriter Gary DeVore with whom he worked on The Dogs of War and Raw Deal.

Irvin's next film was the

biopic Mandela's Gun (2016), relating Nelson Mandela
's times as a guerrilla fighter.

Irvin is currently in talks to direct a Falklands War film about the true story of the Battle of Goose Green.[citation needed]

Filmography

Film Year
The Dogs of War 1980
Ghost Story 1981
Champions 1984
Turtle Diary 1985
Raw Deal 1986
Hamburger Hill 1987
Next of Kin 1989
Eminent Domain 1990
Robin Hood 1991
Freefall 1994
Widows' Peak
A Month by the Lake 1995
Crazy Horse 1996
City of Industry 1997
When Trumpets Fade 1998
Noah's Ark
 1999
Shiner 2000
The Fourth Angel 2001
The Boys from County Clare 2003
Dot.Kill 2005
The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha
The Moon and the Stars 2007
The Garden of Eden 2008
Mandela's Gun 2016

Honours

References

  1. ^
    All Movie Guide. 2014. Archived from the original
    on 27 April 2014.

External links
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