John Boorman
Gender: Male
Born: 18th January 1933 (currently 79 years old)
Nationality: England
Movies: Beyond Rangoon, Citizen 63, Deliverance, Excalibur, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Having A Wild Weekend, Hell in the Pacific, Hope and Glory, I Dreamt I Woke Up, In My Country, Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman, Leo The Last, Lumière and Company, Memoirs of Hadrian, Point Blank, Six Days to Saturday, The Emerald Forest, The Exorcist series, The General, The Tailor of Panama, The Tiger's Tail, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Two Nudes Bathing, Where the Heart Is, Zardoz
John Boorman (18 January 1933-22 May 2012) was a British filmmaker who was a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama.
Boorman was born in Shepperton, Surrey, England, the son of Ivy (née Chapman) and George Boorman. He was educated at the Salesian School in Chertsey, Surrey, even though his family was not Roman Catholic. He has directed a total of 22 movies.
Boorman first began by working as a drycleaner and journalist in the late 1950s. He ran the newsrooms at Southern Television in Southampton and Dover before moving into TV documentary filmmaking, eventually becoming the head of the BBC's Bristol-based Documentary Unit in 1962.
Capturing the interest of producer David Deutsch, he was offered the chance to direct a film aimed at repeating the success of A Hard Day's Night (directed by Richard Lester in 1964): Catch Us If You Can (1965) is about competing pop group Dave Clark Five. While not as successful commercially as Lester's film, it drew good reviews from distinguished critics such as Pauline Kael and Dilys Powell and
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