Biography
Simon West (born 1961) is an English-born film director. West started as a film editor with the BBC, then directed documentaries and commercials including many for Budweiser. His film directing career started when he directed Con Air in 1997.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Bride Hard
2025
Director
Sam is a secret agent whose toughest mission to date is pleasing her bride-to-be best friend at a lavish destination wedding. When a team of mercenari...

The Legend Hunters
2025
Director
The story follows the team as they try to raid a tomb made by master tomb raiders.

Old Guy
2024
Director
Stuck at a dead end but vying for the love of spunky club manager Anata, aging contract killer Danny Dolinski is thrilled when The Company pulls him b...

Skyfire
2019
Director
Tianhuo Island is as beautiful as a paradise. It almost makes people forget that it is located in the "Ring of Fire" the world-famous Pacific Rim volc...

Gun Shy
2017
Director, Producer
A mega-platinum, aging rock star's supermodel wife is abducted by pirates while vacationing in Chile.

The Saint
2017
Executive Producer
International master thief, Simon Templar, also known as The Saint, is asked by a desperate rich man to find his kidnapped daughter. However, in addit...

Stratton
2017
Director
A British Special Boat Service commando tracks down an international terrorist cell.

Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn
2015
Producer
A group of survivors trapped in a New York apartment fight to stay alive against legions of zombies.

Wild Card
2015
Director
When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing.

Gods of War: Assembling Earth's Mightiest Anti-Heroes
2012
as Self
Documentary about the filming of the movie The Expendables 2.

Stolen
2012
Director
Master thief Will Montgomery is just released from the State penitentiary after serving a 10 year sentence, is contacted by Vincent, his ex comrade in...

The Expendables 2
2012
Director
Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge put...

The Mechanic
2011
Director
Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code requiring professional perfection and total detachment. One of an elite group of ...

When a Stranger Calls
2006
Director
Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast ...

Black Hawk Down
2001
Executive Producer
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and ...

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
2001
Director, Adaptation
Orphaned heiress, English aristocrat and intrepid archaeologist, Lara Croft, embarks on a dangerous quest to retrieve the two halves of an ancient art...

The General's Daughter
1999
Director
When the body of Army Capt. Elisabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill,...

Con Air
1997
Director
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" takin...

Swallows and Amazons
1974
as John Walker
On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up...
Raider
N/A
Director
Raider tells the story of a president, sworn in after a landslide victory, who discovers that the White House has been controlled by an elite shadow o...
Fortitude
N/A
Director
Brilliant British Army officers Dudley Clarke and Thomas Argyll “Tar” Robertson deploy an elaborate web of deception campaigns including fictitious ar...