Brian Gibson (director)

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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Brian Gibson (22 September 1944 – 4 January 2004) was an English film and television director.

Early life and education

Gibson was born 22 September 1944 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex.<ref name=guardian>Template:Cite web</ref> His mother, Victoria,<ref name=nyt>Template:Cite web</ref> was a shop assistant and his father was a carpenter.<ref name=telegraph>Template:Cite web</ref> He had a sister, June.<ref name=nyt/><ref name=lat>Template:Cite web</ref> Gibson attended Southend High School for Boys and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he studied medicine.<ref name=guardian/><ref name=telegraph/><ref name=upi>Template:Cite web</ref> He also studied History of Science at Darwin College, Cambridge.<ref name=telegraph/> He graduated from Cambridge University.<ref name=nyt/>

Career

In the late 1960s, Gibson began working for the BBC, directing scientific documentaries<ref name=guardian/> for their long-running series Horizon. One standout episode entitled "Joey," about Joey Deacon, a lifelong brain-damaged man who found a way to communicate with his family through another similarly affected patient at his hospital, won him an SFTA Award for Best Specialized Programme of 1974.

Gibson directed Helen Mirren in the 1979 BBC film Blue Remembered Hills and his work on that film won him a BAFTA Award for Best Director.<ref name=nyt/>

Gibson made his feature film directorial debut with Breaking Glass (1980).<ref name=guardian/> In 1986, he directed Poltergeist II: The Other Side.<ref name=guardian/> In 1989, he directed Ben Kingsley in the HBO television film Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story.<ref name=guardian/> In 1990, Gibson directed the miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, starring Steven Bauer and Benicio Del Toro.<ref name=guardian/> Gibson won a Primetime Emmy and a Directors Guild of America Award for directing the HBO television film The Josephine Baker Story (1991).<ref name=guardian/> In 1993, he directed the Oscar nominated film What's Love Got to Do with It, starring Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne.<ref name=guardian/> This led to a first look deal with Touchstone Pictures.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 1996, he directed Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin in The Juror.<ref name=guardian/> In 1998, he directed the British film Still Crazy starring Bill Nighy and Billy Connolly.<ref name=guardian/> Gibson served as an executive producer for Frida (2002), starring Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina.<ref name=guardian/> He was preparing to direct a film for 20th Century Fox, and also collaborating on a script with his wife when he was diagnosed with cancer.<ref name=guardian/>

Personal life and death

Gibson had homes in London and Los Angeles.<ref name=nyt/>

In 1990, Gibson married Lynn Whitfield.<ref name=jet>Template:Cite web</ref> They have a daughter Grace.<ref name=guardian/> Their marriage ended in divorce.<ref name=nyt/> After their divorce he married the artist Paula Rae Gibson, with whom he had another daughter, Raphaela.<ref name=guardian/><ref name=telegraph/>

Gibson died of bone cancer in London on 4 January 2004; he was 59.<ref name=guardian/><ref name=nyt/>

Filmography

References

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