Roger Spottiswoode

Roger Spottiswoode

1945-01-05 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 40 Credits

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...

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Either Side of Midnight

2021

Director

Directing

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

The Beach House

2018

Director

6.4
Directing

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

A Street Cat Named Bob

2016

Director

7.9
Directing

James Bowen, a homeless busker and recovering drug addict, has his life transformed when he meets a stray ginger cat.

Midnight Sun

Midnight Sun

2014

Director

5.9
Directing

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

Beyond Right & Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness

2012

Director, Producer

6.2
Directing Producing

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

The Children of Huang Shi

2008

Director

6.7
Directing

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

Shake Hands with the Devil

2007

Director

7.2
Directing

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

Ripley Under Ground

2005

Director

5.7
Directing

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

Spinning Boris

2003

Director

5.7
Directing

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

Ice Bound

2003

Director

4.9
Directing

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

The Matthew Shepard Story

2002

Director

5.5
Directing

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

The 6th Day

2000

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Noriega: God's Favorite

2000

Director, Executive Producer

5.3
Directing Producing

The story of Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega.

Highly Classified: The World of 007

Highly Classified: The World of 007

1998

4.0
Acting

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

Tomorrow Never Dies

1997

Director

6.4
Directing

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

The Secrets of 007

1997

as Self

7.9
Acting

Behind-the-scenes look at more than three decades of the James Bond feature film series.

Murder Live!

Murder Live!

1997

Director

5.5
Directing

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

Hiroshima

Hiroshima

1995

Director

8.0
Directing

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

Mesmer

Mesmer

1994

Director

6.0
Directing

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

And the Band Played On

1993

Director

6.5
Directing

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

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

1992

Director

5.3
Directing

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

Air America

1990

Director

5.8
Directing

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.

Another 48 Hrs.

1990

Characters

6.0

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

Turner & Hooch

1989

Director

6.3
Directing

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

Third Degree Burn

1989

Director

4.6
Directing

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

Shoot to Kill

1988

Director

6.6
Directing

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

The Last Innocent Man

1987

Director

5.2
Directing

A retired criminal lawyer is persuaded to take on one more case and becomes involved with his client's wife.

The Best of Times

The Best of Times

1986

Director

5.6
Directing

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

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend

1985

Executive Producer

5.2
Producing

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

Under Fire

1983

Director

6.7
Directing

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

48 Hrs.

48 Hrs.

1982

Writer

6.7
Writing

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

The Renegades

1982

Director

6.4
Directing

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

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper

1981

Director

5.3
Directing

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

Terror Train

1980

Director

5.7
Directing

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

Who'll Stop the Rain

1978

Associate Producer

6.5
Producing

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

Hard Times

1975

Editor

6.8

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

The Gambler

1974

Editor

6.7

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

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973

Editor

7.2

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

Straw Dogs

1971

Editor

7.2

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

Stamping Ground

1971

Editor

6.7

Documentary of a 1970 rock concert held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.