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Anthony ScottAnglo-American director and producer.
Date of Birth: 21.07.1944
Country:  Great Britain |
Biography of Anthony Scott
Anthony Scott, an English-American director and producer, was born in the small town of Stockton-on-Tees in Northeast England. He is the younger brother of director and producer Ridley Scott. Scott's mother, Elizabeth Scott, was an actress, and he grew up with his two older brothers, Frank and Ridley.
Scott began his career in the film industry as an actor, starring in his twenty-three-year-old brother Ridley's debut short film at the age of sixteen. He attended the Royal College of Art, where his brother had previously studied, with the intention of becoming an artist. However, he soon joined his brother in the advertising industry. Over the course of two decades, he directed around a thousand commercials for British television.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, British films by directors such as Alan Parker, Adrian Lyne, Hugh Hudson, and Ridley Scott gained success in the United States. Following this trend, Tony Scott was also invited to work in Hollywood. He initially wanted to adapt Anne Rice's novel "Interview with the Vampire," but he was unable to reach an agreement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to launch the project. Instead, he directed a vampire film based on MGM's own vampire script. The aesthetically-driven film, "The Hunger," featuring David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve, was released in 1982 but did not achieve success. As a result, Scott returned to advertising and music videos.
In 1985, producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer invited Scott to direct the high-budget film "Top Gun." Simpson and Bruckheimer were among the few fans of "The Hunger," and they also liked the car advertisement that Scott had directed for the Swedish automaker Saab in the early 1980s. Following the success of "Top Gun," which starred Tom Cruise as a young pilot, Scott specialized in action films. He collaborated with Simpson and Bruckheimer again on "Beverly Hills Cop II," a sequel to the popular comedy-action film starring Eddie Murphy. However, his next film, "Revenge," in which Scott replaced director John Huston, was a box office failure.
In 1990, Scott continued his collaboration with Simpson, Bruckheimer, and Cruise in the racing film "Days of Thunder." The following year, he directed the action film "The Last Boy Scout," starring Bruce Willis. In 1992, Scott met Quentin Tarantino, who allowed him to read his two scripts, "Reservoir Dogs" and "True Romance." Scott expressed his intention to make films based on both scripts, but Tarantino preferred to direct "Reservoir Dogs" himself. Scott's film adaptation of "True Romance," featuring Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken, Gary Oldman, and other actors, established him as a serious director. His next film, the political thriller "Crimson Tide," in which he collaborated with Simpson and Bruckheimer again, became a hit in 1995. However, the thriller "The Fan" (1996), despite the participation of Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes, was another failure, disliked by both audiences and critics. In 1998, when "Enemy of the State" was released, Scott once again achieved success.
In the new millennium, Scott directed the film "Spy Game," dedicated to the memory of his mother, who passed away in 2001. He then directed films such as "Man on Fire," "Domino," and "Deja Vu," as well as commercials for Marlboro and the U.S. Army. Alongside his brother Ridley, he co-founded the production company Scott Free Productions. Some of their works include the series "Numbers," in which Tony Scott also directed the first episode of the fourth season, and the series "Andromeda Strain," a new adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel. Scott was married three times and has two children, Frank and Max, from his third marriage to actress Donna Wilson Scott. His nephews, Jake Scott and Jordan Scott, are the children of Ridley Scott. In 2002, he won an Emmy award for Best Television Movie for "Churchill".
