John Boorman

Nationality:
English
Birthdate:
01/18/1933
Birthplace:
Shepperton, Middlesex, England
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Renowned for pushing actors (and crews) to their very limit in order to achieve transcendent results, director John Boorman is a committed filmmaker who has refused to settle into fixed genres and remains as commercially unpredictable as he is artistically fascinating. Though he dismisses realism, the location shooting on his movies that pit man against the environment creates conditions that promote it, and his pronounced mystical bent drives him to explore the power of myth in his work. Profoundly influenced by Carl Jung's writings about archetypal imagery, Boorman has often said that all Continued
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milestones
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Milestone
 
Left school at age 16, going into partnership with a friend to open what became a thriving dry-cleaning business
1951 
Served in British Army
1955 
Began working for Independent Television News as assitant editor; while there launched ITN magazine program "Day by Day"
1958 
Moved to Southern Television; began producing documentaries
1960 
Moved to BBC-TV, where he became head of the Documentary Film Unit in Bristol
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