Cause of death Ewing's sarcoma Years active 1970s–1998 | Name Brian Gibson Role Film director | |
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Born 22 September 1944 ( 1944-09-22 ) Reading, Berkshire, England, U.K. Occupation Film and television director Children Grace Gibson, Raphaela Gibson Books Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective Movies Poltergeist II: The Other Side, What's Love Got to Do with It, The Juror, Still Crazy, Breaking Glass Similar People Lynn Whitfield, Vantile Whitfield, Oliver Robins, Hazel O'Connor, Michael Grais | ||
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Brian Gibson (22 September 1944 – 4 January 2004) was an English film director.
Contents
- Tina turner movie 1993 director brian gibson writer kate lanier
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life and death
- Filmography
- References
Early life and education
Gibson was born September 22, 1944 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. His mother, Victoria, was a shop assistant and his father was a carpenter. He had a sister, June. Gibson attended Southend High School. He attended St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he studied medicine. He also studied History of Science at Darwin College, Cambridge. He graduated from Cambridge University.
Career
In the late 1960s, Gibson began working for the BBC, directing scientific documentaries. Gibson directed Helen Mirren in the 1979 BBC film, Blue Remembered Hills and his work on that film won him a BAFTA Award for Best Director. Gibson made his feature film directorial debut with Breaking Glass (1980). In 1986, he directed Poltergeist II: The Other Side. In 1989, he directed Ben Kingsley in the HBO television film, Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story. In 1990, Gibson directed the miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, starring Steven Bauer and Benicio Del Toro. Gibson won a Primetime Emmy and a Directors Guild of America Award for directing the HBO television film The Josephine Baker Story (1991). In 1993, he directed the Oscar nominated film What's Love Got to Do with It, starring Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne. In 1996, he directed Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin in The Juror. In 1998, he directed the British film Still Crazy starring Bill Nighy and Billy Connolly. Gibson served as an executive producer for Frida (2002), starring Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina. He was preparing to direct a film for 20th Century Fox, and also collaborating on a script with his wife when he was diagnosed with cancer.
Personal life and death
Gibson had homes in London and Los Angeles.
In 1990, Gibson married Lynn Whitfield. They have a daughter Grace. Their marriage ended in divorce. After their divorce he married the artist Paula Rae Gibson, with whom he had another daughter, Raphaela.
Gibson died of bone cancer in London on 4 January 2004; he was 59.