Guy Ritchie

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AKA: Guy Stuart Ritchie
Nationality: British
Birthdate: 09/10/1968
Birthplace: Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom

biography

Though he may have enjoyed cultivating his image as a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks, British filmmaker Guy Ritchie roots were steeped in England’s upper class. Nonetheless, Ritchie directed some of the most stylish caper comedies about blue collar thugs and other lower class misfits ever to emerge from his native land. Starting with “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” (1999), the director arrived onto the filmmaking landscape with a unique twist on an old genre that gainfully employed flashy camera moves, punchy dialogue tinged with thick Cockney accents, and a seemingly endless Continued

Credits

Producer
2008
Director
2008
Screenplay
2008
Director
2007
Screenplay
2007
Director
2002
screenplay
2002
Executive Producer
2002
Director
2001
Screenplay
2001
Director
Screenplay

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Split time between Fulham and Hatfield until parents divorced
 
Following parents' divorce, spent much of his youth at Loton Park, the 17th-century home of his baronet stepfather, Sir Michael Leighton
 
After washing out of Standbridge Earls School at age 15, worked at Island Records
 
Began working construction jobs at age 17
1993 
Got job as a runner for Soho film producers (date approximate)
Continued

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