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  Michael Winner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Winner (born 30 October 1935 in London, England) is a British film director and producer, active in both Europe and the United States.
Winner was born into a wealthy family of Jewish expatriates.
Winner has been active on law enforcement issues and helped to establish the Police Memorial Trust after WPC Yvonne Fletcher was murdered in 1984.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Michael Winner   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Michael Winner (born October 30, 1935 in London, England) is a British film director and producer.
Winner may also be remembered for directing Marlon Brando in The Nightcomers (1972), a reworking of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.
Winner is renowned for his many relationships, enjoying the company of some of the world's most beautiful women, including Joan Collins and Sophia Loren; he also had a six-and-half-year relationship with the actress Jenny Seagrove, who ended the relationship after catching him with another woman.
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 Anova Books - Winner Takes All   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Michael Winner, the legendary film director, writer and food critic, is a colourful figure who has led a remarkable life.
Michael Winner gained his first taste of fame, when aged fourteen, he met the stars for a showbusiness column in twenty London local papers.
Michael Winner is an acclaimed British film director and restaurant critic.
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 Waitrose.com - Profile of Michael Winner - Waitrose Food Illustrated
Michael Winner is arguably better known for his no-nonsense restaurant reviews than he is for his films.
Winner claims his aim is to be accurate and funny; once in a while, however, he is prone to what he calls "a natural explosion." He suffered one such outburst on a recent visit to Cliveden with Vanessa.
Winner is still indignant about the Cliveden episode, believing that the hotel lied to the press.
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 BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Faces of the week
Above are Michael Winner (main picture), with Sir Alan Sugar, Abigail Witchalls, "The Scream" and Sir John Mills.
Michael Winner's belief that fallen police officers should be honoured began when 25-year-old WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead outside the Libyan Embassy in London in April 1984 while controlling a crowd of demonstrators.
Today, Michael Winner, who lives in a vast house in West London, is a regular on panel shows like Have I Got news For You, and has achieved a certain fame for his television advertisements for an insurance company, which he writes and directs, too.
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 Michael Winner Biography
Winner was his at best in the middle and late 1960s when he came up with some original, intriguing and beguiling entertainment.
Winner films are not generally notable for affecting the emotions, but this one does.
That was virtually the last human touch in his work, although he had great commercial success in the mid-1970s with the vigilante movie Death Wish (1974), a success he repeated when badly in need of a box-office hit, with Death Wish II (1982).
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 Michael Winner (1935 - )
Winner has unashamedly pursued commercial projects and as a result, his later films are usually greeted with critical scorn.
Winner has also written and produced (or co-produced) the majority of his films, and has also (as "Arnold J. Crust") edited them.
Death Wish (1974; director: Michael Winner) treats the theme of vigilantism and law and order in the context of the crime-ridden urban centers of the United States in the latter 20th century.
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 screenonline: Winner, Michael (1935-) Biography
Michael Winner has been one of the most controversial British directors of recent times, consistently critical of an indigenous cinema culture that he regards as failing to support film-makers who see film as popular entertainment.
Winner was born in London on 30 October 1935 to Jewish expatriate parents, a Polish mother and Russian father.
By the 1990s Winner had become less prolific, and reaped no benefit from the Lottery-prompted rise in genre film-making, which favoured the young and inexperienced.
www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/447985   (443 words)

  
 Definition of Michael Winner
Winner has unashamedly pursued commercial projects and as a result, his films are usually greeted with critical scorn.
Perhaps the critics are reminded that in I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname Winner's alter ego in the film (an advertising executive played by Oliver Reed) questions the idea of pursuing commerce in art, and the film stands as the director's most personal work.
Winner may also be remembered for directing Marlon Brando in one of his better pre-Godfather films The Nightcomers (1972), a reworking of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.
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 Michael winner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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 Michael Winner - Bullseye! (1990) | Movie Review (The Worst Movie Ever Made)
Winner might be in the very close circle of friends of Napoleon, Lord Bryon or Timmy Mallett but that ain't going to make him a great director.
The fact that Winner has famous bestest friends is a source of interest to no-one but Winner and explains nothing other than that he can make dire movies with bestest friends.
And no actor who seems to be Winner's bestest friend when he recalls them in the no-doubt well-paid obituary columns he writes in the Daily Mail, has anything but a blemish on his CV for working with him.
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 Guardian Unlimited Film | Interviews | Interview: Emma Brockes meets Michael Winner
Winner's indiscretion is legendary, exceeded only by his reputation as a thrower of tantrums.
Winner likes to explain himself in terms of the zodiac: he is a Scorpio, which, he says, means, "We're very snappy and bad-tempered on the outside and very soft on the inside.
Geraldine is only the second of Winner's girlfriend's to have moved in with him, although she tends to occupy "her own little room" at night.
film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,1319116,00.html   (1709 words)

  
 Michael Winner - Anchor Bay Entertainment UK
Michael Winner made a big fuss about this in the press and got a number of fellow directors, critics and other members of the 'great and the good' (including a couple of MPs) to petition the BBFC to leave it alone.
There was a Michael Winner season at the NFT in the late 70s (was it 1979?).
While Winner can fairly be described as a poor to awful filmmaker, he has made one excellent film (Death Wish) and a handful of enjoyable ones (The Mechanic, The Stone Killer, The Sentinel, Death Wish 2, Death Wish 3).
www.anchorbay.co.uk /forum/showthread.php?t=2814   (909 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Money | Insurance_ | Winner and losers in the esure ad wrangle
Michael Winner is making a fortune advertising motor insurance.
In that case, why is esure's advertising campaign fronted by Michael Winner who assures us that he is just the kind of driver they are looking for?," says Robin Murtough from Guildford.
So we came to an arrangement with Michael Winner that he would insure his car with us but paying a special premium in line with his risk," esure says.
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 The DVD Maniacs - Forum - Michael Winner
Michael Winner is a filmmaker who intrigues and repels me as a viewer, sometimes doing both at once.
One thing that always amazes me is that Winner must have worked with more truly great actors than ANY other director, a fact he never lets you forget with his legendary name dropping.
Winner could be accused of giving his actors too much freedom, resulting in some horrible moments of cheesy comedy, even in his best films.
www.dvdmaniacs.net /forums/showthread.php?t=15014   (1716 words)

  
 Michael Winner (I)
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 Michael Winner   (Site not responding. Last check: )
October 30 1935) is a British film director a producer best known his direction of movies depicting Swinging London of the 1960s as well as the crime dramas Death Wish and The Big Sleep.
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 Michael Winner
A one-time Cambridge law student, British director Michael Winner had been geared toward a cinematic career since the age of 16, when he began writing entertainment criticism.
Transferring his base of operations to Hollywood, Winner turned his back on the trendiness of his British work to become a top violent-action specialist.
Michael Winner's most successful films have been made in concert with macho superstar Charles Bronson, notably the first three entries in the Death Wish series.
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 Michael Graves :: Featured News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Michael Graves & Associates received a silver design award for their design of Rice University’s North Campus Master Plan Phase 1: Martel College in Houston, Texas.
The projects were reviewed by a distinguished panel of judges, including, a dean from the School of Architecture at Princeton University and a professor from the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture.
Other Design Day winners include: gold and bronze winner Michael Ryan Architects of Loveladies; silver winner The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; silver and bronze winner Skidmore Owings & Merrill, LLP of New York City and bronze winner Guenther & Hee of Collingswood.
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 Amazon.ca: Death Wish (Widescreen): DVD: Michael Winner,Charles Bronson,Hope Lange,Vincent Gardenia,Steven ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Michael Winner's bloody revenge thriller turned longtime character actor Charles Bronson into a superstar, but despite its stylish photography, it's a routine genre film.
Michael Winner worked this one into a poster child for street justice and inspired more than a few real life imitators (the ad campaign boasted: "Paul Kersey is going to kill 3 muggers tonight: One for his murdered wife, one for his raped daughter and one for you!").
Director Michael Winner handles the material in as blunt a fashion as possible, presenting Kersey as a heroic Everyman doing what anyone would want to do under similar circumstances.
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 Amazon.com: Death Wish 3: DVD: Michael Winner,Charles Bronson,Deborah Raffin,Ed Lauter,Martin Balsam,Gavan ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Winner also incorporates a lot of intentional humor and irony as the film progresses.
Winner doesn't caricature his crime-ridden city as much as he did previously, but his gangs, or at least some gang members, still have a bit of Broadway to them.
Michael Winner - Director, Brian Garfield - Writer, Don Jakoby - Writer, Yoram Globus - Producer (producer), Menahem Golan - Producer (producer), Michael J. Kagan - Producer (associate producer), Michael Winner - Producer (co-producer)...
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 And the Winner is at Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally
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 Michael Winner - DeathList Forum
As a regular reader of "Winners Dinners" in the Sunday Times, I worry that Michael is ordering "all the puddings" on the menu far too often.
Winner being ejected pre-meal from a (now Michelin starred) restaurant by the head chef, whose verbal tirade earned him a round of applause from the waiting staff (myself included) and other diners.
She hopes to publish a book of her pavement snaps later this year, the title of which has not been confirmed, but is thought to be "Geriatric's and Gluttony." When asked how she manages to gain the attention of her victims such as famous film director and Sunday Times restaurant critic Michael Winner (aged 97).
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 Amazon.ca: Sentinel: DVD: Michael Winner,Chris Sarandon,Cristina Raines,Martin Balsam,John Carradine,José Ferrer,Ava ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Incidentally, when the door is finally opened, out spills an assortment of deformed humans whom director Michael Winner hand-picked from hospital wards and circus sideshows.
Michael Winner, the director who presented us with such classic cinema as "Scorpio," "Death Wish," and "The Mechanic," gives us his all in this chilling story about a gateway to Hell and the poor souls entrusted to protect the rest of us from the evil spirits dwelling there.
The model soon discovers her new dwellings possess a decidedly sinister atmosphere--a blind priest sits and stares out of the window of the top floor apartment, an elderly creep spouting cryptic comments (Burgess Meredith) keeps dropping by, and a couple of females in an extremely close relationship live in a neighboring apartment.
www.amazon.ca /Sentinel-Michael-Winner/dp/B00023P4UQ   (2099 words)

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