Guy Hamilton
Guy Hamilton was born on Sep 16, 1922 in France. Guy Hamilton's big-screen debut came with I Became a Criminal directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1947. Guy Hamilton is known for Goldfinger directed by Guy Hamilton, Sean Connery stars as James Bond and Gert Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger. Guy Hamilton has got 1 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Guy Hamilton achieved is Evening Standard British Film Awards. The upcoming new movie Guy Hamilton plays is Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins which will be released on Oct 11, 1985.
Typically British stiff-upper-lip war dramas and action adventure laced with moments of sophisticated comedy were Guy Hamilton's trademark. The son of a British diplomat, he spent most of his youth with his family in France, seemingly destined to be groomed for a career in the diplomatic service. Growing up, he became enthralled with French cinema (and, particularly, with the films of Jean Renoir). This instilled in him a burning ambition to become a director himself. In 1939 Hamilton got his first job as a clapper boy with Victorine Studios in Nice (now known as Studios Riviera). He worked his way up the hard way via the accounting department and as a producer's assistant. At the outbreak of World War II, British personnel were evacuated from France and Hamilton found work in the cutting room of British Paramount News which provided him with an excellent background in editing (albeit briefly--his career was soon interrupted by wartime duties in the Royal Navy with the 15th Motor Gunboat Flotilla).After the war, Hamilton got back into the movie business as a third assistant director (an experience he later described as amounting -- more or less -- to be a "gofer" and tea boy for the first assistant director). His big break eventually arrived courtesy of Carol Reed who took him under his wing as first assistant director for Première désillusion (1948). Reed became his mentor and a kind of father figure and exerted a profound influence on the budding filmmaker. Hamilton went on to work with Reed on Le troisième homme (1949) and Le banni des îles (1951)). For John Huston, he then served in the same capacity on La Reine africaine (1951) (one of his duties included building a pontoon made up of four or five pirogues to provide room for the cameras, as the "Queen" was too cramped to film on).Hamilton's first film as director in his own right was L'assassin a de l'humour (1952), a minor thriller based on an Edgar Wallace story. He established himself properly with Les indomptables de Colditz (1955), a prisoner-of-war drama enlivened by deft humor and a pointedly "British" style. In the 1960s, his acquaintance with Albert R. Broccoli led to his directing four entries in the James Bond franchise (though he had turned down previous offers to helm the opener, James Bond 007 contre Dr. No (1962)): Goldfinger (1964), Les diamants sont éternels (1971), Vivre et laisser mourir (1973) and L'homme au pistolet d'or (1974). In a later interview, Hamilton recalled that he (and writer Tom Mankiewicz) particularly enjoyed putting Bond into the "snake-pit" in situations of mortal peril, then working out a way to extricate him within 50 seconds. Hamilton's "intellectual" interpretation of Bond, the witty, at times facetious humor --usually in the midst of hair-raising situations-- contributed greatly to the popular and commercial success of these films. While these films established his reputation, much of his later work (L'ouragan vient de Navarone (1978), Remo sans arme et dangereux (1985) proved less endearing.In the mid-1980s, Hamilton retired to the island of Majorca with his second wife, actress Kerima (who had co-starred in "Outcast of the Islands"). He died there on 20 April 2016 at the age of 93.
Birthday
Sep 16, 1922Place of Birth
Paris, France
Known For
Awards
1 wins & 2 nominations
Movies & TV Shows
- 1985
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
writer, director
6.4 - 1982
director
7.0 - 1980
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6.2 - 1978
director
6.4 - 1974
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6.7 - 1973
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6.7 - 1971
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6.5 - 1969
director
6.9 - 1966
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6.8 - 1965
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6.4 - 1964
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7.7 - 1964
director
6.6 - 1961
director
6.7 - 1960
director, writer
6.7 - 1959
director
7.0 - 1957
director, writer
6.2 - 1956
director
5.6 - 1955
director, writer
6.9 - 1954
director
7.5 - 1953
director
6.7 - 1952
director
6.4 - 1952
second unit director or assistant director
6.8 - 1951
second unit director or assistant director
7.7 - 1951
second unit director or assistant director
6.9 - 1950
second unit director or assistant director
7.0 - 1950
second unit director or assistant director
6.2 - 1949
second unit director or assistant director
8.1 - 1948
second unit director or assistant director
7.6 - 1948
second unit director or assistant director
6.6 - 1947
second unit director or assistant director
7.2