Brian Gibson
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Brian Gibson (September 22, 1944 - January 4, 2004) was an English film director.
Born in Reading, Berkshire, he studied Natural Sciences at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge graduating with an upper-second. He intended to become a doctor, but became interested in journalism and edited Granta, the Cambridge University magazine.
After travelling in Turkey, Israel and Syria, Brian started at the BBC as a research assistant for Rene Cutforth's program, "Europa." He then produced several excellent editions of Horizon, a science tv magazine which included "Joey, the Mechanical Boy" for which he won considerable recognition. He went on to direct Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills.
In Hollywood, he directed Poltergeist II and HBO specials which included biographies of Simon Wiesenthal and Josephine Baker. He followed up with the Tina Turner biopic, What's Love Got to Do with It, and The Juror. In 1998 he directed his last film, Still Crazy.
Gibson married the leading lady of his TV film "The Josephine Baker Story," Lynn Whitfield. They had a daughter and divorced in 1992. He remarried and had another daughter before he died of Ewing's Sarcoma at his London home at the age of 59.
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