John Irvin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Irvin (born May 7, 1940) is an English film director. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, he began his career by directing a number of documentaries and television works, including the BBC adaptation of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Also, he made several action films in the 1980s including The Dogs of War (1980), Raw Deal (1986), Hamburger Hill (1987) and Next of Kin (1989). In the 1990s and 2000s, Irvin directed films such as Robin Hood (1991), When Trumpets Fade (1998), Shiner (2000) and The Moon and the Stars (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Irvin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind

Explore the personal and professional triumphs and challenges of actor Natalie Wood, which have often been overshadowed by her premature death.

Release Date:2020-01-27

Character:Self

Vote Count:30

The Big Meeting

Every second Saturday in July, since 1871, the city of Durham has been taken over by miners, trade-unions and the general public for one of the biggest annual gatherings in Europe, the Durham Miners' Gala - known locally as "The Big Meeting".

Release Date:2019-09-06

Character:Self

Mandela's Gun

Set in 1962 MANDELA’S GUN is a political thriller, based on Mandelas African Odyssey. As Commander-in-Chief of the Liberation Army Umkhonto we Sizwe (the MK) he undergoes military training in Algeria and Ethiopia while surviving assassination attempts and betrayal. In South Africa he is finally arrested with the connivance of the CIA In the crucible of the surging African Liberation Movements of the early 60s not only does he study the art of war but also leadership and political survival. MANDELA’S GUN is a thrilling biopic, supported by eyewitness accounts from Mandelas advisors and comrades.

Release Date:2016-10-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Garden of Eden

A young American writer completes his service in WWI and travels across Europe with his wife and her attractive Italian girlfriend. Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.

Release Date:2008-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:22

The Moon and the Stars

1939: Rome stands on the brink of World War II. In the midst of this political and social tension famed producer Davide Rieta is making a major film. The two lead actors, the German woman Kristina Baumgarten and the English man James Clavel ace each others' initial antagonism and eventually fall in love. Meanwhile the fascist police are looking for an excuse to arrest the Jewish filmmaker and any other potential "troublemakers." The producer and his crew decide to make one final extraordinary effort to complete the film - against all odds.

Release Date:2007-02-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha

A group of young girls are brought up in a college within dark forests and gloomy lakes. Young Hidalla and her friends Irene, Vera, Blanka, Melusine and Rain are brought up in an isolated world: the girls don't know anything about live outside the college's high walls. At the age of 16, some of them start asking questions about their origins, their parents and the true purposes of the Headmistresses strict rules. When two of them disappear mysteriously, the initial fairytale atmosphere grows more and more eerie...

Release Date:2005-11-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:30

Dot.Kill

Charlie Daines is a morphine-addicted detective on the trail of a psychopath who is setting up murders and broadcasting them live on the internet. As he closes in on the killer, Charlie realises that he is to be the final victim.

Release Date:2005-03-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:17

The Boys & Girl from County Clare

In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.

Release Date:2003-09-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:20

The Fourth Angel

Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terrorist movement, and his wife and daughter are among the slaughtered. With western governments suppressing key facts and unwilling to go after the terrorists, Jack uses his contacts and snooping skill to seek the truth himself.

Release Date:2001-08-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:63

Shiner

The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.

Release Date:2000-09-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:21

Noah's Ark

In the Biblical story from Genesis, God floods the world as Noah rescues his family and the animals in a gigantic ark.

Release Date:1999-05-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:32

When Trumpets Fade

In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they have all been killed in action. Despite requesting a discharge on the grounds of mental disability, Manning is promoted to sergeant and assigned to lead a new platoon of young inductees.

Release Date:1998-06-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:134

City of Industry

A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.

Release Date:1997-03-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:82

Crazy Horse

The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.

Release Date:1996-07-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

A Month by the Lake

For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up -- not even thinking about it -- as she helps the new nanny of an Italian family settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of finishing school in Switzerland, is bored and finds some amusement in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the first time since before the great war. And Miss Bentley now finds more about the major to admire than his ears.

Release Date:1995-09-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:38

Widows' Peak

Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with the son of the community's leader

Release Date:1994-04-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:19

Freefall

New York publisher Dex Dellum sends his fiancée and star photographer Katy Mazur to Swaziland to shoot the taita falcon. There she meets 'highman' (altitude stuntman) Grant Orion, who practices skydiving. After an initial clash, they become hot lovers, her first infidelity. She's drugged before he leaves unannounced. In London Grant saves her from armed killers and discloses to be an Interpol agent. Dex has an incompatible story but is killed. It's the start of a cascade of violence and charades.

Release Date:1994-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:24

Robin Hood

The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.

Release Date:1991-05-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:162

Eminent Domain

A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.

Release Date:1991-04-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:18

Next of Kin

Truman Gates, a Chicago cop, sets out to find his brother's killer. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.

Release Date:1989-10-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:235

Hamburger Hill

The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.

Release Date:1987-08-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:468

Raw Deal

Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down. To accomplish this, he must go undercover and join Patrovina's gang.

Release Date:1986-06-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:789

Turtle Diary

Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.

Release Date:1985-12-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:11

Champions

The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National

Release Date:1984-04-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:14

Down at the Hydro

Diedre and The Colonel separately attend a health spa and find themselves falling in love.

Release Date:1983-09-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

A Moment in Time

Colonel Hunt is a widower in his 60s. It is in search of health, not romance, that he books in for a week at the Elm Park Hydro and submits himself to a regime of rest, exercise, and starvation rations. When he meets the attractive Deidre Mackay, he finds himself experiencing emotions he never thought he'd feel again. From each other they learn how to live and how to love. They relive their youths-pulling pranks, laughing and dreaming. With a love so powerful, their time together is of no consequence. For it is a moment that stands still in time. A Moment In Time will make you laugh and cry and share a love that you'll never forget!

Release Date:1983-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Ghost Story

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.

Release Date:1981-12-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:150

The Dogs of War

Mercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small African nation, from an iron-fisted despot. Once there, Jamie ends up in jail. After being brutally tortured, he is assisted by political prisoner Dr. Okoye and learns more about the plight of the country's people. After Jamie is freed, he becomes disillusioned with his wealthy employers and joins the Zangaro people on the revolutionary front.

Release Date:1980-12-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:142

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

Release Date:1979-09-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:112

You Are My Heart's Delight

Two contrasting stories: one couple dream of leaving the city; another have left the countryside.

Release Date:1978-08-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Alphabetical Order

Michael Frayn play part of TV series ITV Sunday Night Drama.

Release Date:1978-01-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Hard Times

Thomas Gradgrind devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism, self-interest and hard fact. His raising of his children to this way of thinking creates opportunity and tragedy.

Release Date:1977-10-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:2

The Proofing Session

Graham, an executive, is ordered by his boss to look after a couple of out-of-town buyers - who make it clear they would like to visit a brothel.

Release Date:1977-05-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Haunted: The Ferryman

A horror novelist and his wife go to a house in the country for a short vacation. However, they soon find that one of his novels is coming true when they are haunted by the ghost of a drowned ferryman.

Release Date:1974-12-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

The Nearly Man

A middle class man finds life as a Labour MP challenging.

Release Date:1974-10-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Tomorrow Night in London

Sporadically edited footage of London's streets and night life.

Release Date:1969-06-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt

Dramatically portraying the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the film reveals the conditions of virtual slavery which persisted throughout the Middle Ages, and the weaknesses of the feudal system; its oppressive tax structure, its cruelty and its social inequality

Release Date:1969-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Mafia No!

A BAFTA award nominated documentary about Danilo Dolci's 1967 march across Sicily as an expression of his fight against poverty, corruption and violence, together with transcripts of an interview with Dolci.

Release Date:1967-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Bedtime

The film begins at the end of one act of love-making and ends at the beginning of the next and is a dialogue between two people who are neither in love nor married to each other.

Release Date:1967-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Carousella

25min short documentary about Soho strippers which was banned on its first release by the British Board of Censors as head scissor man at the time John Trevelyan believed it was far too positive in its portrayal of the exotic dancers and feared it would serve as a recruitment film for the stripping scene

Release Date:1966-12-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Go Go Go Said the Bird

Four young people pinpoint the attitudes that have contributed to the phenomenon of swinging London.

Release Date:1966-10-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Gala Day

A description of the various activities of Gala Day held annually at Durham when the miners and their families come to town.

Release Date:1963-12-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1