Personal Info
Birth date
1935-10-30 (89 Years)
Day of death
2013-01-21
Gender
Male
Known for
Directing
Place of birth
London, England, UK
Also known as
Arnold Crust Jr.
Arnold Crust
Майкл Уиннер
Michael Winner
Biography
Michael Robert Winner was a British film director, producer and food critic. He is perhaps best known for directing several movies starring Charles Bronson, including three of the five Death Wish films.
Filmography
Question Time
5.5
Overview:
This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.Have I Got News for You
7.047
Overview:
Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.Room 101
6.3
Overview:
Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101.An Audience with...
5.3
Overview:
An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style.Kate Garraway's Life Stories
5.9
Overview:
Celebrities open up to Kate Garraway in intimate and moving interviews.The Mrs Merton Show
6.4
Overview:
The Mrs Merton Show is a mock chat show starring Caroline Aherne as the elderly host Mrs Merton. It ran from 10 February 1995 to 2 April 1998 and was produced by Granada Television and aired on the BBC. The writers included Aherne, Craig Cash, Dave Gorman and Henry Normal. Prior to TV success, Aherne's Mrs Merton character appeared on Frank Sidebottom's album "5/9/88", then made her TV debut on the 1991 Channel 4 gameshow Remote Control, hosted by Anthony H Wilson. The chat show was followed up by a sitcom, Mrs Merton and Malcolm, based on Mrs Merton and her son Malcolm, who was played by Craig Cash.Birds of a Feather
6.1
Overview:
Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1989 until 1998 and on ITV from 2013. Starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph, it was created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, who also wrote some of the episodes along with many other writers. The first episode sees sisters Tracey Stubbs and Sharon Theodopolopodos brought together when their husbands are sent to prison for armed robbery. Sharon, who lived in an Edmonton council flat, moves into Tracey's expensive house in Chigwell, Essex. Their next-door neighbour, and later friend, Dorien Green is a middle-aged married woman who is constantly having affairs with younger men. In the later series the location is changed to Hainault. The series ended on Christmas Eve 1998 after a 9-year-run.Brass Eye
7.531
Overview:
Investigative reporter Chris Morris puts modern Britain under the spotlight, and smacks the issues of the day till they bleed. He tackles weighty issues including animals, drugs, sex and skewered celebrities and politicians alike - and in a later episode in 2001, paedophiles.Fifth Gear
5.4
Overview:
Getting viewers up to speed on all the latest automotive information, with new car reviews, second hand bargains and industry tidbits being the focus of this magazine show.True Crimes
7
Overview:
Each episode presents a new true crime case, modern or historical. Michael Winner hosts, providing exposition through voiceovers due to low production values. He often delivers a patronizing moral conclusion.Death Wish
6.9
Overview:
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.The Mechanic
6.681
Overview:
Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim's sons, Steve McKenna, as his apprentice. Arthur puts him through a rigorous training period and brings him on several hits. As Steven improves, Arthur worries that he'll discover who killed his father.Chato's Land
6.6
Overview:
In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.Appointment with Death
6.131
Overview:
Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.Death Wish 3
6.2
Overview:
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.Death Wish II
6.2
Overview:
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.The Sentinel
6.1
Overview:
As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building that houses a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants. After experiencing a string of disturbing occurrences, she attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.Claudia
10
Overview:
Eager to escape her high-society life among the English Elite, a woman falls in love with a young musician. Her husband, however has other plans for her.Lawman
6.5
Overview:
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.The Stone Killer
6.195
Overview:
A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.The Nightcomers
5.653
Overview:
Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the slow corruption of the children in their care.The Big Sleep
5.9
Overview:
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.Burke & Hare
6.076
Overview:
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.Scorpio
6.1
Overview:
Cross is an old hand at the CIA who often teams up with Frenchman Jean “Scorpio” Laurier, a gifted freelance operative. After their last mission together, the CIA orders Scorpio to eliminate Cross, leaving him no choice but to obey.Bullseye!
5.2
Overview:
Spies force two British con men to pose as look-alike scientists peddling cheap-energy fusion.Firepower
4.76
Overview:
A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity
7.8
Overview:
With his grizzled moustache and chiselled features, Charles Bronson is the embodiment of a slightly archaic, brooding and almost reactionary virility. But who is he really? Often hired to play marginalised Native American or Mexican characters before he was typecast as the image of a lone killer, Bronson was a major figure in the popular cinema of the 1960s and 70s and his stony-faced, physical acting and career are worthy of a second look.West 11
6.9
Overview:
Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...Hannibal Brooks
6.4
Overview:
A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo decides it is not safe for his Asian elephant Lucy to remain there. So he sends Brooks to safety with Lucy. They escape and go on the run in order to get to Switzerland.The System
6.2
Overview:
In a seaside village, a group of local young men mingle among the seasonal tourists in search of sexual conquests. Near the end of one summer, the leader of the group, Tinker, a strolling photographer, aims to conquer a fashion model from a well-to-do family, but he finds himself unexpectedly falling in love. The tables thus turned, Tinker begins to see that maybe it's not the tourists who are being used in these sexual games.Acting
2020Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity as Self (archive footage)
2011Dear Censor…: The Secret Archive of the British Board of Film Classification as Unknown
2010Burke & Hare as Gentleman Passenger
2009Kate Garraway's Life Stories (1 Episode) as Unknown
2007Most Shocking Celebrity Moments of the 80s as Self
2003Who Got Diana Dors's Millions? as Himself
2002Fifth Gear (1 Episode) as Self
2000The Real Oliver Reed as Self
1997Brass Eye (1 Episode) as Self
1995The Mrs Merton Show (1 Episode) as Self
1994Room 101 (1 Episode) as Self
1994Calliope as The Director
1994Decadence as The Entourage
1993The Diary of Jack the Ripper: Beyond Reasonable Doubt? as Himself
1991For the Greater Good (3 Episodes) as Sir Randolph Spence
1990An Audience with Jackie Mason as Unknown
1990Have I Got News for You (3 Episodes) as Self
1990Oooh Er Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story as Self
1989Birds of a Feather (1 Episode) as Michael Winner
1988One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage as Self (uncredited)
1987Just a Song and Dance as Unknown
1986The Last Moguls as Self
1979Question Time (2 Episodes) as Self - Panellist
1978An Audience with... (1 Episode) as Self
1963The Cool Mikado as Aeroplane passenger (uncredited)
1962Behave Yourself as Unknown
Writing
1999Parting Shots ... Story, Screenplay
1993Dirty Weekend ... Writer
1990Bullseye! ... Story
1988Appointment with Death ... Screenplay
1985Claudia ... Writer
1983The Wicked Lady ... Screenplay
1982Death Wish II ... Writer
1979Firepower ... Story
1978The Big Sleep ... Screenplay
1977The Sentinel ... Writer
1974Death Wish ... Writer
1969Hannibal Brooks ... Story
1967The Jokers ... Story
1965You Must Be Joking ... Story
1963The Cool Mikado ... Screenplay
1962Behave Yourself ... Writer
1961Some Like It Cool ... Screenplay
1961Girls Girls Girls! ... Writer
1961Out of the Shadow ... Screenplay
1960Shoot to Kill ... Writer
1958Man with a Gun ... Writer
1957The Square ... Writer
Directing
1999Parting Shots ... Director
1993Dirty Weekend ... Director
1990Bullseye! ... Director
1989A Chorus of Disapproval ... Director
1988Appointment with Death ... Director
1985Death Wish 3 ... Director
1984Scream for Help ... Director
1983The Wicked Lady ... Director
1982Death Wish II ... Director
1979Firepower ... Director
1978The Big Sleep ... Director
1977The Sentinel ... Director
1976Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood ... Director
1974Death Wish ... Director
1973The Stone Killer ... Director
1973Scorpio ... Director
1972The Mechanic ... Director
1972Chato's Land ... Director
1972The Nightcomers ... Director
1971Lawman ... Director
1970The Games ... Director
1969Hannibal Brooks ... Director
1967I'll Never Forget What's'isname ... Director
1967The Jokers ... Director
1965You Must Be Joking ... Director
1964The System ... Director
1963West 11 ... Director
1963The Cool Mikado ... Director
1962Behave Yourself ... Director
1962Play It Cool ... Director
1962It's Magic ... Director
1961Some Like It Cool ... Director
1961Girls Girls Girls! ... Director
1961Out of the Shadow ... Director
1961Haunted England ... Director
1960Shoot to Kill ... Director
1960Climb Up The Wall ... Director
1957The Square ... Director
Editing
1999Parting Shots ... Editor
1990Bullseye! ... Editor
1988Appointment with Death ... Editor
1985Death Wish 3 ... Editor
1984Scream for Help ... Editor
1983The Wicked Lady ... Editor
1982Death Wish II ... Editor
1979Firepower ... Editor
1973Scorpio ... Editor
1972The Mechanic ... Editor
1972Chato's Land ... Editor
1972The Nightcomers ... Editor
Production
1999Parting Shots ... Producer
1990Bullseye! ... Producer
1988Appointment with Death ... Producer
1985Death Wish 3 ... Co-Producer
1984Scream for Help ... Producer
1979Firepower ... Producer
1978The Big Sleep ... Producer
1977The Sentinel ... Producer
1974Death Wish ... Co-Producer
1973The Stone Killer ... Producer
1972Chato's Land ... Producer
1972The Nightcomers ... Producer
1971Lawman ... Producer
1969Hannibal Brooks ... Producer
1961Haunted England ... Producer
1957The Square ... Producer
Creator
1992True Crimes ... Creator