Deliverance
1972
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Sir John Boorman CBE (/ ˈ b ʊər m ə n /; born 18 January 1933) is a British film director, producer and screenwriter.
John Boorman. Producer: Hope and Glory. John Boorman attended Catholic school (Salesian Order) although his family was not, in fact, Roman Catholic. His first job was for a dry-cleaner. Later, he worked as a critic for a women's journal and for a radio station until he entered the television business, working for the BBC in Bristol.
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Jun 13, 2024 · British movie director John Boorman is one of the most distinctive stylists of his generation. His notable films include Point Blank (1967), Deliverance (1972), Excalibur (1981), Hope and Glory (1987), and The Tailor of Panama (2001). Learn more about Boorman’s life and career.
- Michael Barson
He became famous for Excalibur (1981) , The Emerald Forest (1985) and his autobiographic story Hope and Glory (1987) where he tells his own experiences as a child after World War II and which brought him another Academy Award Nomination after Deliverance (1972). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Volker Boehm.
- January 18, 1933
Jan 16, 2023 · Where to begin with John Boorman. As John Boorman turns 90, we backtrack through the wide-ranging career of the British director who gave us everything from Deliverance to Zardoz.
Renowned for pushing actors and crews to their very limit in order to achieve transcendent results, director John Boorman was a committed filmmaker who refused to settle into fixed genres while...
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Jul 28, 2022 · John Boorman's film about an outward-bound trip gone wrong was one of the most unnerving of the 1970s. Fifty years on, Adam Scovell talks to Boorman and explores its meaning.
