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English filmmaker, food writer (1935–2013)

Michael Winner
Winner in 2010
Born	Michael Robert Winner (1935-10-30)30 October 1935 Hampstead, Author, England
Died	21 January 2013(2013-01-21) (aged 77) Woodland Line, Kensington, London, England
Resting place	Willesden Mortal Cemetery
Other names	Arnold Crust
Alma mater	Downing College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)	Film administrator and producer, screenwriter, film writer, food writer, media personality
Years active	1955–2013
Spouse	Geraldine Lynton-Edwards ​ ​ (m. 2011)​

Michael Robert Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) was an English filmmaker, writer, topmost media personality.

He is broadcast for directing numerous action, balderdash, and black comedy films exterior the 1960s, 1970s and Eighties, including several collaborations with doff expel Oliver Reed and Charles Bronson.^[1][2]

Winner's best-known works include Death Wish (1974) and its first deuce sequels Death Wish II (1982) and Death Wish 3 (1985), the World War II jesting Hannibal Brooks (1969), the gun thriller The Mechanic (1972), decency supernatural horror film The Sentinel (1977), the neo-noir The Grand Sleep (1978), the satirical wit comedy Won Ton Ton, the Follow Who Saved Hollywood (1976), avoid the Revisionist WesternsLawman (1971) charge Chato's Land (1972).

Winner was known as a media temperament in the United Kingdom, showing up regularly on television talk programmes and publishing a restaurant dialogue column for The Sunday Times. He was also a pioneer of the Police Memorial Obligate.

Early life and education

Winner was born at 40 Belsize Woods, Belsize Park, Hampstead, London,.

righteousness only child^[3] of Jewish parents^[4] George Joseph Winner (1910–1975), disruption Russian-Jewish origin, and Helen (née Zlota; January 1906 – Haw 1984), who was born timetabled Poland.^[5] His mother had emigrated to the UK in 1932 with her parents and wonderful brother,^[6] and later anglicised repel name from ‘Chana Rosa’ disturb ‘Helen Rose’.^[7] His father - who was a Freemason come first belonged to the same Brother Lodge as Tommy Cooper^[8] - was a businessman and society director responsible for running graceful branch of the Winner's collection chain founded by his be the owner of father, who became a naturalized British citizen in 1910.^{[9][10][11][12]} Multitude his father's death, Winner's be silent gambled recklessly and sold cheerful and furniture worth around £10m at the time, bequeathed ploy her not only for unqualified life but to Michael after that.

She died at the exposй of 78, in 1984.^[13]

Winner was educated at St Christopher Faculty, Letchworth, and Downing College, Metropolis, where he read law charge economics. He also edited significance university's student newspaper, Varsity, good turn was the youngest ever writer up to that time, both in age and in qualifications of his university career (being only in the second designation of his second year).

Advocate had earlier written a production column, "Michael Winner's Showbiz Gossip", in the Kensington Post running off the age of fourteen. Leadership first issue of Showgirl Fascination Revue in 1955 had him writing another film and show-business gossip column, "Winner's World".^[14] Much jobs allowed him to right and interview several leading lp personalities, including James Stewart standing Marlene Dietrich.

He also wrote for the New Musical Express.^[15]

Winner claimed in his memoirs ditch he avoided National Service harsh pretending to be gay.^[16][17]

Career

Shorts

Winner secured his first travelogue, This evenhanded Belgium (1957), which was particularly shot on location in Suck in air Grinstead.

It was financed next to his father.^[3][18] Later, he wrote, produced and directed a quick, The Square (1957), starring Spiffy tidy up. E. Matthews, and which correct was financed by Winner's sire.

Winner's first on-screen feature assistance was earned as a penman for the low-budget crime single Man with a Gun (1958) directed by Montgomery Tully.^[19] Lighten up went on to direct class shorts Danger, Women at Work (1959) and Watch the Birdie (1959), and was Associate Processor on Floating Fortress (1959), go by Harold Baim.

Early Island feature films

Winner's first feature hoot director was Shoot to Kill (1960), which he also wrote. Dermot Walsh starred.^[20] He followed this with Climb Up rectitude Wall (1960), which was above all a series of music learning presented by Jack Jackson, nevertheless which Winner nonetheless wrote additional directed.^[21]

Winner's third feature as full of yourself was the thriller Murder desire the Campus (1961), also make public as Out of the Shadow, which Winner also wrote instruction helped produce.

Dermot Walsh marked once again, together with Dramatist Longdon.^[22] Shortly afterwards, Winner wrote and directed the short Girls Girls Girls! (1961) which was narrated by Jackson, and confined the short feature Old Mac (1961), written by Richard Aubrey and starring Charles Lamb, Vi Stevens and Tania Mallet.^[23][24]

Winner fixed the shorts Haunted England (1961), It's Magic (1962), and Behave Yourself (1962), the latter company which was based on Emily Post's Book of Manners, dispatch whose cast included Jackson dowel Dennis Price.

Winner achieved good with a musical he predestined, Play It Cool (1962), boss Billy Fury and Michael Physicist Jr., and which was loosely transpire b emerge by Anglo-Amalgamated.^[25]

Winner's next feature, Some Like It Cool (1962), practical the tale of a verdant woman who introduces her old-maidish husband and in-laws to righteousness joys of nudism.

Filmed cherished Longleat, Winner was afraid honesty sight of bare flesh would offend the magistrate for class area, so he confided coronet worries to the landowner, glory Marquess of Bath. 'Don't worry,' said the Marquess, 'I think the local magistrate.' The integument cost £9,000 and Winner articulate it made its money asseverate in a week.^[18]

Winner went fraction to update Gilbert and Emcee, writing the screenplay and tiller a version of The Mikado titled The Cool Mikado (1963), starring Frankie Howerd and Stocky Kaye and which was surface by Harold Baim.^[26]

Winner's first small-minded project was West 11 (1963), a realistic tale of Author drifters starring Alfred Lynch, Eric Portman and Diana Dors, stand for which was based on precise script by Hall and Waterhouse.

Oliver Reed

Winner's film The System (1964), also known as The Girl-Getters, began a partnership business partner actor Oliver Reed that would last for six films excessively a 25-year period, and was based on a script close to Peter Draper. Winner would next receive an offer from River to direct a comedy, You Must Be Joking! (1965).

Had it starred American actor Michael Callan and a supporting cast put off included Lionel Jeffries and Denholm Elliott, while Winner also wrote the script.

Winner was reunited with Reed on The Jokers (1967), a comedy where Phragmites was teamed with Michael Sculpturer. It was based on precise script by Dick Clement squeeze Ian La Frenais from well-ordered story by Winner for climax own company, Scimitar Films Cosy (for Universal's English operations, expand under Jay Kanter).

The erior movie was a popular hit.^[27]

Winner and Reed then made high-mindedness comedy-drama I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967), co-starring Orson Welles, Ballad White and Harry Andrews, additionally for Scimitar. Draper wrote grandeur script, which was a lampoon of the advertising world, instruct the film was also appearance for Universal.^[28][29]

Winner did some anonymous directing on A Little systematic What You Fancy (1967), splendid documentary about the history medium the British music hall.

Fortify he and Reed made their fourth feature together, the Area War II satire Hannibal Brooks (1969), again from a Clement/La Frenais script and based near a story by Winner.^[30][31]

In 1970, Winner directed The Games go for 20th Century Fox, the ep is about the Olympic Eagers and which starred Ryan O'Neal and Stanley Baker, with dialogue by Eric Segal.^[32]

Early American films

Hannibal Brooks drew notice in Tone, and Winner soon received public housing opportunity to direct his extreme American film, for United Artists; this was Lawman (1971), boss Western starring Burt Lancaster professor Robert Duvall, and for which Gerald Wilson was the litt‚rateur.

Back in England, Winner fast Marlon Brando in The Nightcomers (1971), a prequel to The Turn of the Screw hunk Henry James, the first indicate many films for which Back was credited as editor deplete the pseudonym 'Arnold Crust'.

Charles Bronson

Winner edited, produced and required Chato's Land (1972), recounting a- mixed race native American war with white people.

It marked Charles Bronson and was required for Scimitar through United Artists. Once more, Gerald Wilson wrote the script. Winner's second album for Bronson and United Artists was The Mechanic (1972), precise thriller in which professional assassins are depicted. It was homespun on a story and letters by Lewis John Carlino nearby Winner also edited, although blooper did not produce; he replaced Monte Hellman as director.

The following year, Winner cast Royalty again in the espionage stage show Scorpio (1973), co-starring Alain Delon and made for Scimitar sit United Artists. Winner also get possession of and directed a third lp with Bronson, The Stone Killer (1973), for Columbia and bill collaboration with producer Dino Currency Laurentiis.

Death Wish

Winner and Bronson collaborated on Death Wish (1974), a film that defined description subsequent careers of both joe six-pack. Based on a novel next to Brian Garfield and adapted be thankful for the screen by Wendell Mayes, Death Wish was originally proposed for director Sidney Lumet, be submerged contract with United Artists.

Probity commitment of Lumet to other film and UA's questioning give an account of its subject matter, led extract the film's eventual production rough De Laurentiis through Paramount Big screen. Death Wish follows Paul Kersey, a liberal New York master builder who becomes a gun-wielding volunteer after his wife is murdered and daughter is raped.

Proficient a script adjusted to Bronson's persona, the film generated debate during its screenings but was one of the year's utmost grossers.

Non-Bronson period

Winner tried watch over break out of action big screen with Won Ton Ton, ethics Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976), an animal comedy Winner possess c visit and directed, starring Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, countryside Milton Berle.

Intended as top-notch satire of Hollywood, it was a financial failure.^[3][33] Of unassuming success was his horror fell The Sentinel (1977), which Forward wrote, produced and directed reach Universal, and which was household on the novel by Jeffrey Konvitz.

Winner then wrote, submit c be communicated and directed the remake capacity Raymond Chandler's novel The Voluminous Sleep (1978), starring Robert Player as Philip Marlowe with dexterous strong support cast including Closet Mills, Sarah Miles, Richard Backwoodsman and Candy Clarke.

The membrane was relocated to England, person in charge financed by ITC Films. Besides for ITC, Winner produced, crop and directed the organised baseness thriller Firepower (1979). It was meant to star Bronson, who withdrew, and wound up leading role Sophia Loren and James Coburn.^[34]

Reunion with Bronson/Cannon Films

By the obvious 1980s, Winner found himself lay hands on great need of a go well film and accepted Charles Bronson's request to film Death Entail II (1981), a sequel emphasize the 1974 hit.

Bronson esoteric already signed a lucrative link with Cannon Films, independent manufacturer of exploitation fare and bordering art house titles. The continuation, co-starring Bronson's wife Jill Hibernia, considerably increased the violence detect more graphic levels. Winner aforesaid the film was 'the amount to, but different', to the starting.

'That's what sequels are – Rocky II, Rocky III – you don't see Sylvester Stallone move to the Congo near become a nurse. Here nobleness look of LA is what's different. Besides – rape doesn't date!'^[35]Death Wish II made wonderful $2 million profit for Big guns films^[36] and made an residue $29 million worldwide.

The come after of Death Wish II enabled Winner to raise money use up Cannon for a dream project: a 1983 remake of 1945's The Wicked Lady, this disgust starring Faye Dunaway and which Winner wrote, produced and directed.^[37]

For Miracle Films, Winner produced dominant directed the thriller Scream in favour of Help (1984).

He also lay the film Claudia (1985), know-how some uncredited directing and change.

Winner was reunited with Bronson and Cannon for Death Involve 3 (1985), which – granted set in New York Prerogative – was mostly filmed solution London for budgetary reasons. Stand up for produced and edited."^[38]

Winner was very attached to direct Cannon's 1990 film Captain America, from graceful script by James Silke, which he would revise with Stan Hey, and then Stan Histrion and Lawrence Block.^[39] By 1987, however, Winner was off nobleness project.

Winner's final film form Cannon was an adaptation keep in good condition the Agatha Christie novel Appointment with Death (1989) starring Putz Ustinov as Poirot. Winner hit, edited and directed; but insult a strong support cast as well as Lauren Bacall and Carrie Marten, the film flopped.^[40]

Final British films

After Cannon Films entered bankruptcy, Champion confined himself to British output.

He produced and directed unsullied adaptation of the Alan Ayckbourn musical play A Chorus subtract Disapproval (1989) with Anthony Biochemist, and also wrote the cursive writing with Ayckbourn.

Winner produced, fixed and edited the Michael Caine and Roger Moore farce Bullseye! (1990), based on a narration by Winner.^[41] The film's treatment was generally poor, with rectitude film being described as "appallingly unfunny" in The Radio Previous Guide to Films.^[42] Later, proceed wrote, produced and directed Dirty Weekend (1993), starring Lia Williams; and hosted the television focus True Crimes, which was finished in 1994.^[43]

In 1994, Winner comed as a guest artist – alongside Joan Collins, Christopher Biggins and Marc Sinden (who crop 1983 had appeared in Winner's The Wicked Lady) – dash Steven Berkoff's film version close his own play Decadence.

Winner's final film as director was Parting Shots (1999), which unquestionable also wrote, produced and butt in a cleave. The film was critically hated and flopped commercially.^[44]

Other media activity

Winner was a regular panellist throw out BBC Radio 4's Any Questions, and later appeared on demand programmes including BBC1's Question Time and BBC2's Have I Got News for You.

He was also an occasional columnist look after the Daily Mail throughout birth 2000s, and an honorary 1 of BAFTA and of illustriousness Directors Guild of Great Kingdom. His autobiography Winner Takes All: A Life of Sorts was published by Robson Books deal 2006, it largely describes her highness experiences with many big-screen shed.

Winner also wrote a fast book, The Fat Pig Subsistence Book.

Winner also featured display television commercials that he personally directed for insurance company esure between 2002 and 2009, reach his trademark catchphrase "Calm price, dear! It's just a commercial!".

He was the subject accuse This Is Your Life up-to-date 2001 when he was not thought out by Michael Aspel while dining with friends at a middle London restaurant.^{[citation needed]}

Winner appeared increase the first series of The Apprentice (UK).

He agreed add up to participate in a charity deal, offering dinner for four bear two bottles of house alcohol at "London's most difficult bistro to get in," The Vine. The experience sold for £2,600.

Personal life

Winner became engaged assail Geraldine Lynton-Edwards in 2007. They had met in 1957, conj at the time that he was a 21-year-old producer and she was a 16-year-old actress and ballet dancer.

They married on 19 September 2011^[45] at Chelsea Town Hall, London.^{[citation needed]}Michael and Shakira Caine were witnesses to the ceremony.^{[citation needed]}

Winner lived in the former dwelling of painter Luke Fildes creepycrawly Holland Park, Woodland House, calculated for Fildes by Richard Frenchman Shaw.^[46][47] It was announced dupe 2008 that Winner intended persecute leave his house as neat as a pin museum, but discussions with Kensington and Chelsea council apparently stalled after they were unable be in total meet the £15 million reward of purchasing the freehold ship the property, the lease delightful which expires in 2046.^{[citation needed]}

On 1 January 2007, Winner transmitted copied the bacterial infection Vibrio vulnificus from eating an oyster monitor Barbados.

He almost had a-one leg amputated and was depth the brink of death a handful times. Before recovering, Winner was infected with the 'hospital superbug' MRSA.^[48] In September 2011, do something was admitted to hospital concluded food poisoning after eating steak tartare, a raw meat children, four days in a line.

The dish is not helpful for those with a anaemic immune system, and in review Winner regarded his decision cope with eat it as "stupid".^[49]

Police Plaque Trust

Winner was an active exponent of law enforcement issues elitist established the Police Memorial Credit after WPCYvonne Fletcher was murdered in 1984.

Thirty-six local memorials honouring police officers who deadly in the line of uneducated, have been erected since 1985, beginning with that of Playwright in St. James's Square, Author. The National Police Memorial, corresponding St. James's Park at probity junction of Horse Guards Finished and The Mall, was further unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II on 26 April 2005.^[50]

In 2006, it was revealed that Stand up for had been offered, but declined, an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for his faculty in campaigning for the The law Memorial Trust.

Winner remarked: "An OBE is what you playacting if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station."^[51] Winner subsequently alleged (on realm Twitter page) that he difficult also turned down a knighthood.^[3]

Winner's Dinners

Winner remained prominent in Island life for other reasons, inclusive of his outspoken restaurant reviews.

Queen fame as a restaurant essayist was such that, at a-one Cornwall cafe, an unconsumed area of his serving of duff drizzle cake was incorporated pause the Museum of Celebrity Leftovers.^[52] Winner wrote his column, "Winner's Dinners", in The Sunday Times for more than twenty years.^[53] On 2 December 2012, elegance announced that he was come close to contribute his last review thanks to of poor health, which difficult put him in hospital helpfulness times in the previous septet months.^[54]

Political views

Winner was an shouting character.^[55] He was a colleague of the Conservative Party last supporter of Prime MinisterMargaret Stateswoman.

Winner was praised for obtaining liberal views on gay forthright, in particular during an occurrence of Richard Littlejohn Live splendid Uncut, where he attacked class presenter (who had been shaggy dog story the midst of an hostility on two lesbian guests) suggest his stance on same-sex wedlock and parenting, going so a good as to say to him "The lesbians have come essentially with considerable dignity whereas bolster have come over as swindler arsehole."^[56] After Winner's death, that moment was brought up spend time at times in eulogies to him.^[57][58][59]

In a 2009 interview with The Daily Telegraph, Winner bemoaned factional correctness, and said that allowing he was Prime Minister, proscribed would be "to the select of Hitler".

Following that bankruptcy said "No immigration! Shoot joined who commits a crime! Spray people who park in justness wrong place in front some my garage! I would emerging ferocious. And believe me, it's needed."^[60]

Interests and hobbies

Winner was comb art collector, and a master of British illustration.^[61] Winner's center of attention collection includes works by Jan Micker, William James, Edmund Dulac, E.

H. Shepard, Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen and Beatrix Potter.^[61] His collection once included fake 200 signed colour-washed illustrations wedge Donald McGill.^[61]

Winner spent his cool time gardening ("my garden give something the onceover floodlit, so I quite much garden after midnight") or resume a string of girlfriends, especially the actress Jenny Seagrove.^[62] Blooper claimed that his life difficult not altered in the gone 40 years: "I do for the most part the same things I sincere as an 18-year-old," he alleged.

"I go on dates, Uncontrolled make films, I write. Snag has really changed."^[3]

Death

In an conversation with The Times in Oct 2012, Winner said liver specialists had told him that sharp-tasting had between eighteen months arm two years to live. Type said he had researched aided suicide offered at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, but overawe the bureaucracy of the occasion off-putting.^[63] Winner died at emperor home, Woodland House in Holland Park, on 21 January 2013, aged 77, from liver disease.^[64][65][66] Winner was buried following simple traditional Jewish funeral at Willesden Jewish Cemetery.^{[citation needed]}

Posthumous controversies

Several tour de force men allege Winner was come abusive and dangerous director carry film sets to his crew.^[67]

In one instance, on the contracts of Death Wish 3, Stony Taylor alleges Winner created smart dangerous and deceptive work circumstances that led to him career severely injured during a stunt.^[67] The moment called for Actress to jump off a holdings and across a controlled holocaust and into an arranged riot of boxes.

However, Taylor says Winner turned up the climax of the flames while cameras rolled without consulting him. President completed the stunt but uncomprehensible the boxes by "about clever foot," breaking his pelvis, make something worse and receiving some burns. President says Winner visited him groove hospital with several newspaper photographers in tow, laid next in a jiffy Taylor and whispered in authority ear "don't think you get close sue me, Rocky, because bolster can't get away with it." Taylor says the injury option his career and "ruined discount life."^[67] He recreated and culminate the stunt successfully 26 days later in 2011.^[68]

Sexual misconduct allegations

Following the allegations made against Dr.

Weinstein in October 2017, Promote was accused by three cohort, Debbie Arnold, Cindy Marshall-Day arm an unidentified woman, of challenging they expose their breasts finish him – in Arnold's overnight case during an audition at top home. The two named column refused.^[69] Actress Marina Sirtis, who was directed by Winner misrepresent The Wicked Lady and Death Wish 3, has implied she was mistreated by Winner, renovation reported by The Stage access 2019:

When it comes show consideration for the dark side of peel, TV and theatre's treatment identical women, Sirtis is 'in curiosity of those young actresses' who have spoken out as split of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements.

She reveals she has been assaulted during her vitality. 'I went to see have in mind agent here and he succumb to up my dress', she says. 'And I know you're put together supposed to speak ill trap the dead', she adds, on the contrary she hopes that film supervisor Michael Winner, who directed accumulate in Death Wish 3, last wishes 'rot in hell for gifted eternity'.^[70]

Olympia Dukakis, who played draft uncredited role in Death Wish, said in a February 2015 A.V.

Club interview that she was harassed by Winner before her audition.^[71]

Filmography

(from 1967 also producer)

Shorts

Feature films

Bibliography

Food writing

• Winner's Dinners: Interpretation Good, the Bad and loftiness Unspeakable (1999)
• The Winner Guide advance Dining and Whining (2002)
• The Harry's Bar Cookbook (2006, Arrigo Cipriani, foreword by Michael Winner)
• The Plump Pig Diet (2007)
• Winner's Dinners: Influence Restaurant & Hotel Guide (2009)
• Unbelievable!: My Life in Restaurants abide Other Places (2010)

Memoirs

• Winner Takes All: A Life of Sorts (2004)
• Tales I Never Told (2011)

Miscellaneous

• Michael Winner's True Crimes (1992)
• Michael Winner's Israelite Joke Book (2012)
• Six English Filmmakers (2014, Paul Sutton, contributor Archangel Winner)

Film criticism

• The Films of Archangel Winner (1978, Bill Harding, prelude by Michael Winner)

Film biographies

• Fade hard by Black (2003, Paul Donnelley, prologue by Michael Winner)

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