Andrew Davis (film director)
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| Andrew Davis | |
| Born | 21 November 1947 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Film director/producer |
Andrew Davis (born November 21, 1947) is an American film director, producer and cinematographer, noted for the action films Code of Silence, The Fugitive,Chain Reaction and Under Siege.
Born on the South Side of Chicago, Davis has directed several films using Chicago as a backdrop. He is the son of actor Nathan Davis and Metta Davis and the brother of Richard Davis and Jo Ellen Friedman.
After attending Harand Camp of the Theater Arts and Bowen High School, Davis went on to study journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It was not long before his interest in civil rights and anti-war issues converged with his growing interest in film-making. Davis was mentored by acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler with whom he worked on Medium Cool and began his film career as a cameraman on blaxploitation films like The Hit Man, Cool Breeze and The Slams in the 1970s.[1].
His first feature film as a director was the semi-biographical story, Stony Island. Davis has gone on to direct such films as The Fugitive, Under Siege, Above the Law, Code of Silence, Holes, The Package, and The Guardian starring Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner.
Andrew also directed the cutscenes for the videogame Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
In October 2006, he told a London press conference that he's intending to make a film from a fusion of two novels: Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote and Henry Fielding's Tom Jones.[2]
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- ^ Spence, D. (2003-04-17). An Interview with Andrew Davis. IGN. Retrieved on 2007-03-24.
- ^ "Don Quixote" Meets "Tom Jones" (October 12th 2006)
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