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Jun 1, 2022 · June 1, 2022 11:00am. Tony Scott (left) directed Tom Cruise in 1986’s Top Gun. Paramount Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images. As the final credits roll on Top Gun:...
Aug 20, 2012 · Aug 20, 2012, 12:08 AM EDT. LOS ANGELES — Tony Scott, director of such Hollywood hits as "Top Gun," "Days of Thunder" and "Beverly Hills Cop II," died Sunday after jumping from a Los Angeles County bridge, authorities said. The 68-year-old Scott's death was being investigated as a suicide, Los Angeles County Coroner's Lt. Joe Bale said.
Scott, initially reluctant, finally agreed to direct Top Gun. While the film received mixed critical reviews, it was a box office smash, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1986, taking in more than $350 million, and making a star of its young protagonist, Tom Cruise .
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- Anthony David Leighton Scott, 21 June 1944, Tynemouth, England
- Royal College of Art
- 19 August 2012 (aged 68), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
May 27, 2022 · Top Gun: Maverick is dedicated to the memory of Tony Scott, the action movie filmmaker who directed the original 1986 film. Scott, the younger brother of Alien and Blade Runner director Ridley Scott, died on Aug. 19, 2012, in Los Angeles. He was 68. Possible spoilers for Top Gun: Maverick ahead.
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May 26, 2022 · May 26, 2022. As Top Gun: Maverick blasts into theaters an astounding 36 years after the original, the celebration has a bittersweet note due to the absence of director Tony Scott. It’s been almost a decade since Tony, the younger brother of fellow director Ridley Scott, took his own life.
Top Gun is a 1986 American action drama film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, with distribution by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. , and was inspired by an article titled "Top Guns", written by Ehud Yonay and published in California magazine three years earlier.
May 16, 1986 · Top Gun: Directed by Tony Scott. With Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards. As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.
