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Jon Amiel

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Jon Amiel
English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to find a balance between his revolutionary theories on evolution and the relationship with religious wife, whose faith contradicts his work.
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After studies in English literature, Jon Amiel graduated from Cambridge University and ran the Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company, which often toured the USA. He became the Hampstead Theatre Company's literary manager and began directing there, relocating to the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Amiel joined the BBC as a story editor, studied television directing and did TV work through the late 1970s and early 1980s, scoring attention in 1985 with _Silent Twins, The (1985)_, an unforgettable recreation of the tragic "silent twins" June and Jennifer Gibbons, who spoke only to each other. Airing during the same year Marjorie Wallace's non-fiction book The Silent Twins (1986) was published by Prentice Hall), the docudrama was the BBC's selection for entry at the Locarno and Montreal Film Festivals.

As noted in Stephen Gilbert's biography of Dennis Potter, Amiel was working on The Silent Twins (1986) when Kenith Trodd gave him the six Singing Detective scripts. After international acclaim for The Singing Detective (1986), Amiel's feature film debut, Queen of Hearts (1989), premiered at Cannes, was named Best First Film at the Montreal Festival and won the Birmingham Festival's Best British Feature Film Award. Amiel's Tune in Tomorrow... (1990), based on Mario Vargas Llosa's Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter, won the Deauville Festival's Prix Publique. He followed with the period drama Sommersby (1993), the thriller Copycat (1995), The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) and moved into action-adventure with Entrapment (1999) and The Core (2003).
BornMay 20, 1948
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  • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award

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Jon Amiel in The Core (2003)
Jon Amiel and Hilary Swank in The Core (2003)
Sean Connery and Jon Amiel in Entrapment (1999)
Sean Connery, Jon Amiel, and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Entrapment (1999)
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Jon Amiel

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Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, and Harry Connick Jr. in Copycat (1995)
Copycat
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Aaron Eckhart, Stanley Tucci, Delroy Lindo, Hilary Swank, Bruce Greenwood, and DJ Qualls in The Core (2003)
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Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Entrapment (1999)
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  • 1999
Tune in Tomorrow... (1990)
Tune in Tomorrow...
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  • Director
  • 1990

Credits

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  • Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lauren Cohan, and Michael James Shaw in The Walking Dead (2010)
    The Walking Dead
  • Elodie Yung in The Cleaning Lady (2022)
    The Cleaning Lady
  • Crispin Glover, Demore Barnes, Emily Browning, Ian McShane, Ricky Whittle, Yetide Badaki, Omid Abtahi, and Bruce Langley in American Gods (2017)
    American Gods
  • Russell Hornsby and Arielle Kebbel in Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector (2020)
    Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector
  • Kaya Scodelario in Spinning Out (2020)
    Spinning Out
  • Carnival Row (2019)
    Carnival Row
  • Kelsey Grammer, Russell Hornsby, and Rachelle Lefevre in Proven Innocent (2019)
    Proven Innocent
  • Clare-Hope Ashitey in Seven Seconds (2018)
    Seven Seconds
  • Wisdom of the Crowd (2017)
    Wisdom of the Crowd
  • David Morse, Gillian Alexy, Ryan Hurst, and Kyle Gallner in Outsiders (2016)
    Outsiders
  • Ice (2016)
    Ice
    • (as Jon M. Amiel)
  • David Duchovny in Aquarius (2015)
    Aquarius
  • Lorenzo Richelmy in Marco Polo (2014)
    Marco Polo
  • Ed Westwick in Wicked City (2015)
    Wicked City
  • Hemlock Grove (2013)
    Hemlock Grove
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Producer

  • David Morse, Gillian Alexy, Ryan Hurst, and Kyle Gallner in Outsiders (2016)
    Outsiders
  • Deliverance Creek (2014)
    Deliverance Creek
  • Teri Polo, KaDee Strickland, and Sarah Jones in The Wedding Bells (2007)
    The Wedding Bells
  • Reunion (2005)
    Reunion
  • Garcelle Beauvais, Tim Daly, A.J. Langer, Laura Leighton, Eric Mabius, Rick Worthy, and Natalie Zea in Eyes (2005)
    Eyes
  • Sean Patrick Flanery and Sarah Michelle Gellar in Simply Irresistible (1999)
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  • Premiere (1977)
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    • May 20, 1948
    • London, England, UK
    • Tara Fuccella? - present (2 children)
  • Other works
    Feature Audio Commentary for Copycat (1995).

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    Jon Amiel was a mentor at the 2nd annual HatcH audiovisual festival in Bozeman, MT. HatcH is a film and arts festival that focuses on mentoring and inspiring student, independent, and up-and-coming filmmakers and artists.
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    The films I love are exactly those films that are hard to define. These days most films are one ride in the fairground -- rollercoaster for action, tunnel of love for romance or ghost house for horror -- but I love movies that give you the feeling you've been to the whole fair. The movies that combine all those elements are my favorites which is unfashionable at the moment because genre is big at the moment. -- on if he has any favorite genres

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