Brian Gibson

Brian Gibson

Nacimiento : 1944-09-22, London, England, UK

Muerte : 2004-01-04

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Brian Gibson (22 September 1944 — 4 January 2004) was an English film director. Born in Reading, Berkshire, he studied Natural Sciences at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge graduating with an upper-second, and then History of Science at Darwin College, Cambridge. He intended to become a doctor, but became interested in journalism and edited Granta, the Cambridge University magazine. After travelling in Turkey, Israel and Syria, Brian started at the BBC as a research assistant for Rene Cutforth's program, "Europa." He then produced several excellent editions of Horizon, a science TV magazine. Gibson received a BAFTA award and the 1975 Prix Italia for the "Horizon" episode Joey, based on "Tongue tied" the story of a brain-damaged child, by Joey Deacon who, in his adult life, found a handicapped friend to unlock his latent intellect. After this he made The Billion Dollar Bubble, which introduced James Woods to British audiences, and Gossip from the Forest with John Shrapnel. He went on to direct Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills with, among others, Colin Welland, Helen Mirren and John Bird, as well as Breaking Glass with Hazel O'Connor, Phil Daniels and Jonathan Pryce. In Hollywood, he directed Poltergeist II and HBO specials which included biographies of Simon Wiesenthal and Josephine Baker. He followed up with the Tina Turner biopic, What's Love Got to Do with It, and The Juror. In 1998 he directed his last film, Still Crazy. Gibson married the leading lady of his TV film "The Josephine Baker Story" Lynn Whitfield. They had a daughter named Grace Gibson and divorced in 1992. He remarried Paula Rae Gibson and had another daughter before he died of Ewing's sarcoma, a form of cancer, at his London home in 2004. He was 59 years old. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Gibson (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

Perfil

Brian Gibson

Películas

Styx - Caught In The Act
Styx - Caught In The Act
Director
Multi-platinum album selling legends Styx dig deep into their rock arsenal and release on DVD for the first time their concert video Caught In The Act. Recorded during their Kilroy Was Here tour in 1983, this concert video centers around this concept album's theme of a futuristic society where rock `n' roll is banned by the masses. Remastered in 5.1 surround, experience the band's classic hits at the height of their career like Mr. Roboto and Don't Let It End, as well as their concert staples like Come Sail Away, Blue Collar Man and Too Much Time On My Hands.
Frida
Frida
Executive Producer
Biopic sobre la famosa pintora mexicana Frida Kahlo, centrada en su tormentosa relación con Diego Rivera; desde su larga y complicada relación con su mentor y marido, hasta su controvertido e ilícito affaire con Leon Trotsky, pasando por sus provocativas aventuras amorosas con mujeres, Frida Kahlo vivió una vida atrevida y absoluta como revolucionaria política, artística y sexual.
Siempre locos
Siempre locos
Director
Según la revista Rolling Stone, una magnífica pieza de entretenimiento que captura la vitalidad y la locura del rock de los años sesenta.
Coacción a un jurado
Coacción a un jurado
Director
Una madre soltera es seleccionada para formar parte del jurado en un juicio contra un conocido mafioso. Aprovechando la debilidad de ser una mujer sin marido y con un hijo que proteger, deciden presionarla, amenazando con matar a su hijo, para que decida en favor del acusado.
Tina
Tina
Director
La película narra la vida y la trayectorçia musical de Tina Turner desde sus inicios, en los que con 19 años conoce al carismático músico Ike Turner. El destino de Tina no le ha dado ni un segundo de descanso. Junto a Ike alcanzó la cumbre en el mundo de la música, pero también pagó muy caro el éxito. Su matrimonio estuvo marcado por la violencia y la angustia, pero Tina pudo encontrar el valor suficiente para abandonarlo todo y empezar de nuevo su vida y su carrera. De lo más bajo a lo más alto.
The Josephine Baker Story
The Josephine Baker Story
Director
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, and follows to her death in 1975. Written by John Sacksteder
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Director
A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the leading Nazi hunters in the world, bringing such criminals to justice as Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbee. (Written by Anthony Hughes)
Poltergeist II: El otro lado
Poltergeist II: El otro lado
Director
La familia Feeling se ha mudado de casa para dejar atrás los fenómenos paranormales del pasado. Sin embargo, la pequeña Carol Anne sigue teniendo poderes extrasensoriales, ya que la noche en que su abuela muere, la niña habla con ella a través de un teléfono de juguete. Kane, un demonio disfrazado de predicador, intenta convencer a Carol Anne para llevarla al más allá. La desesperada familia se verá obligada a pedir ayuda a un misterioso médium.
La rockera
La rockera
Writer
Kate (Hazel O'Connor) es una excéntrica cantante de música New Wave, su aspecto es bastante estrafalario y escribe letras de gran contenido social. En su cruzada antisistema, lo que más detesta es la industria discográfica. Sin embargo, cuando Danny (Phil Daniels) le ofrece ser su mánager, acaba aceptando. En su camino hacia el estrellato va perdiendo poco a poco sus principios. En una Inglaterra convulsionada por las huelgas, el paro y los enfrentamientos callejeros, Breaking Glass retrata la corrupta industria musical que convierte en mercancía de consumo y en moda pasajera incluso la más subversiva de las culturas juveniles. Mención especial a la banda sonora interpretada por Hazel O'Connor.
La rockera
La rockera
Director
Kate (Hazel O'Connor) es una excéntrica cantante de música New Wave, su aspecto es bastante estrafalario y escribe letras de gran contenido social. En su cruzada antisistema, lo que más detesta es la industria discográfica. Sin embargo, cuando Danny (Phil Daniels) le ofrece ser su mánager, acaba aceptando. En su camino hacia el estrellato va perdiendo poco a poco sus principios. En una Inglaterra convulsionada por las huelgas, el paro y los enfrentamientos callejeros, Breaking Glass retrata la corrupta industria musical que convierte en mercancía de consumo y en moda pasajera incluso la más subversiva de las culturas juveniles. Mención especial a la banda sonora interpretada por Hazel O'Connor.
Gossip From The Forest
Gossip From The Forest
Writer
The events around the signing of The Armistice at the end of the First World War.
Gossip From The Forest
Gossip From The Forest
Director
The events around the signing of The Armistice at the end of the First World War.
Blue Remembered Hills
Blue Remembered Hills
Director
On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around, they indulge in spontaneous games and horseplay - sometimes echoing the distant war, at other times revealing their own insecurities and petty vindictiveness.
Dinner at The Sporting Club
Dinner at The Sporting Club
Director
John Thaw plays Vinny Mathews a small time boxing promoter who struggles with his conscience as to whether or not to provide a fighter for a Sporting Club promotion, a fighter he knows is unfit against an opponent who is way out of his league. However Mathews needs sponsorship and this would be the ideal opportunity to mix with the "frilly shirted" sportsmen who enjoy their lavish lifestyle as fighters slug it out as the steak is served!
The Billion Dollar Bubble
The Billion Dollar Bubble
Director
The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two billion dollar insurance embezzlement scheme involving Equity Funding Corporation of America. The movie stars James Woods in the role of the actuary.
Where Adam Stood
Where Adam Stood
Director
"Where Adam Stood" is "based on" the 1907 autobiography, "Father and Son", by Christian fundamentalist and naturalist Edmund Gosse, but Dennis Potter adapted only one section of the book, adding much material of his own invention. The drama was filmed on the Devon coast near Torquay, not far from where Gosse lived. With a literal belief in the Old Testament, Philip Gosse is opposed to the new theories of Charles Darwin, espoused here by biologist Brackley. Assuming "the Lord's will" determines the fate of his ailing son Edmund, Philip Gosse creates a life-threatening situation, even suggesting the illness is God's punishment because of Edmund's desire for a toy ship.