Jon Amiel

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Jon Amiel
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Amiel at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival for the premier of Creation
Born (1948-05-20) 20 May 1948 (age 75)
London, England [1]
OccupationFilm director
Years active1977–present

Jon Amiel (born 20 May 1948) [1] is an English director who has worked in film and television in both the UK and the US. After receiving a BAFTA Award nomination for the BBC series The Singing Detective (1986), he went on to direct films, including Sommersby (1993), Copycat (1995), Entrapment (1999), [2] The Core (2003) and Creation (2009).

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Biography

Amiel was born in London, to parents who grew up in the East End of London. [3] Amiel's grandparents were immigrants Isaac and Mary Amiel – Polish and Russian Jews. [3] He attended William Ellis School in Highgate, before studying English literature at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, graduating in 1969. It was while at Cambridge that he became involved with local theatre, and after college he went on to direct for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

After having worked as a story editor for the BBC, he directed the documentary The Silent Twins , and was chosen to direct the Dennis Potter serial The Singing Detective , for which he was BAFTA nominated. He made his feature film debut in 1989 with Queen of Hearts.

One of his most notable films is 1993's romantic drama Sommersby , starring Jodie Foster and Richard Gere. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $140 million worldwide.

Filmography

Film

Director

Producer

Television

TV movies

TV series

YearTitleDirectorExecutive
producer
Notes
1982 BBC2 Playhouse YesNo2 episodes
1982–1983 Play for Today YesNo2 episodes
1985 Tandoori Nights YesNo5 episodes
1986 Screen Two YesNoEpisode "The Silent Twins"
The Singing Detective YesNoMiniseries
1988 The Storyteller YesNoEpisode "The Luck Child"
2005 Eyes YesNoEpisode "Pilot"
Reunion YesYesEpisode "1986"
2007 The Wedding Bells YesYesEpisode "For Whom the Bells Toll"
2008 The Tudors YesNo2 episodes
2012–2013 The Borgias YesNo4 episodes
2013 Twisted YesNoEpisode "Pilot"
2013–2015 Once Upon a Time YesNo2 episodes
2014 Halt and Catch Fire YesNoEpisode "Giant"
2015 The Astronaut Wives Club YesNo2 episodes
Hemlock Grove YesNoEpisode "Todos Santos" (Credited as "Jonathan Amiel")
Wicked City YesNoEpisode "Heat Wave"
2015–2016 Aquarius YesNo2 episodes
2016 Marco Polo YesNo2 episodes
2016–2017 Outsiders YesYes6 episodes
2017 Ice YesNoEpisode "The Cut"
Wisdom of the Crowd YesNoEpisode "Machine Learning"
2018 Seven Seconds YesNoEpisode "Matters of Life and Death"
2019 Proven Innocent YesNoEpisode "Shaken"
Carnival Row YesNo2 episodes
2020 Spinning Out YesNo2 episodes
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector YesNoEpisode "Original Sin"
2021 American Gods YesNoEpisode "A Winter's Tale"
2022 The Cleaning Lady YesNoEpisode "The Lion's Den"
The Walking Dead YesNo2 episodes

Awards

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References

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  2. 1 2 "BAFTA Awards 1987". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  3. 1 2 Pall, Ellen (10 September 1989). "Film; Jon Amiel Tracks Life in the Dreamy Lane". The New York Times . p. 2-19. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
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