Biography
Roger Spottiswoode is a Canadian-born film director and writer, who began his career as an editor in the 1970s. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He has directed a number of notable films and television productions, including Under Fire (1983) and the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies starring Pierce Brosnan. Spottiswoode was one of the writing team responsible for 48 Hrs. starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte. In 2000, he directed the science fiction action thriller The 6th Day starring Arn...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Either Side of Midnight
2021
Director
A lyrical snapshot and celebration of the manic, intoxicating diversity of New York. Four stories collide over one Friday night in Manhattan.

The Beach House
2018
Director
Cara Rudland thought she’d left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind, but returns to the scenic Lowcountry of her childhood summers after...

A Street Cat Named Bob
2016
Director
James Bowen, a homeless busker and recovering drug addict, has his life transformed when he meets a stray ginger cat.

Midnight Sun
2014
Director
In northern Canada, a young boy sets a goal for himself to to reunite an abandoned polar bear cub with its mother. Goran Visnjic joins the cast as Muk...

Beyond Right & Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness
2012
Director, Producer
A survivor of the Rwandan Genocide struggles to forgive the man who killed her children. A victim’s daughter strikes up an unusual friendship with th...

The Children of Huang Shi
2008
Director
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the J...

Shake Hands with the Devil
2007
Director
In 1993, Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire was sent by the United Nations to Rwanda as commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for...

Ripley Under Ground
2005
Director
After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name a...

Spinning Boris
2003
Director
Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval rating is down to single di...

Ice Bound
2003
Director
Physician Jerri Nielsen finds herself stranded at the Amundsen-South Pole Research Station along with a tiny staff of researchers and technicians. Tho...

The Matthew Shepard Story
2002
Director
In a senseless act of hatred, openly gay college student Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998. This critically-acclaimed, moving film recounts the fin...

The 6th Day
2000
Director
A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man...

Noriega: God's Favorite
2000
Director, Executive Producer
The story of Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega.

Highly Classified: The World of 007
1998
His world is full of glamour, mystery and intrigue and now you get to be a part of it! Let gadget wizard Q (Desmond Llewelyn) be your guide to the ubi...

Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
Director
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mas...

The Secrets of 007
1997
as Self
Behind-the-scenes look at more than three decades of the James Bond feature film series.

Murder Live!
1997
Director
Frank takes Pia Postman hostage on live TV, threatening to execute her after she accepts the blame for his daughter's suicide.

Hiroshima
1995
Director
Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the...

Mesmer
1994
Director
A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal mag...

And the Band Played On
1993
Director
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
1992
Director
A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she bu...

Air America
1990
Director
Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for lo...

Another 48 Hrs.
1990
Characters
For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the Ice Man. Jack finds a picture ...

Turner & Hooch
1989
Director
Detective Scott Turner has three days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some 'real' cases—not just misdemean...

Third Degree Burn
1989
Director
A down-and-out private eye (Treat Williams) gets too close to the wife (Virginia Madsen) of a rich man (Richard Masur) soon found dead.

Shoot to Kill
1988
Director
When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city str...

The Last Innocent Man
1987
Director
A retired criminal lawyer is persuaded to take on one more case and becomes involved with his client's wife.

The Best of Times
1986
Director
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
1985
Executive Producer
A paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, and try to protect them from hunters who want to capture them.

Under Fire
1983
Director
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

48 Hrs.
1982
Writer
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

The Renegades
1982
Director
In this drama, undercover investigators are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers from getting their weapons to street gangs.

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
1981
Director
A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains. Has Cooper succeeded in following a ...

Terror Train
1980
Director
A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve ...

Who'll Stop the Rain
1978
Associate Producer
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside...

Hard Times
1975
Editor
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans ...

The Gambler
1974
Editor
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling add...

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
Editor
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

Straw Dogs
1971
Editor
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David an...

Stamping Ground
1971
Editor
Documentary of a 1970 rock concert held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.