Andrew Davis (film director)
Andrew Davis (born November 21, 1947) is an American film director, producer and cinematographer, noted for the action films Code of Silence, The Fugitive, Chain Reaction and Under Siege. Born on the South Side of Chicago, Davis has directed several films using Chicago as a backdrop. He is the son of actor Nathan Davis and Metta Davis and the brother of Richard Davis and Jo Ellen Friedman. After attending Harand Camp of the Theater Arts and Bowen High School, Davis went on to study journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It was not long before his interest in civil rights and anti-war issues converged with his growing interest in film-making. Davis was mentored by acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler with whom he worked on Medium Cool and began his film career as a cameraman on blaxploitation films like The Hit Man, Cool Breeze and The Slams in the 1970s. . His first feature film as a director was the semi-biographical story, Stony Island. Davis has gone on to direct such films as The Fugitive, Under Siege, Above the Law, Code of Silence, Holes, The Package, and The Guardian starring Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner. Andrew also directed the cutscenes for the videogame Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory In October 2006, he told a London press conference that he's intending to make a film from a fusion of two novels: Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote and Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. (more)
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Genres: film producer, film director, entertainment, movies
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Under Siege:
Under Siege is a 1992 action film in the Die Hard mold. Directed by Andrew Davis, it stars Steven Seagal as a former Navy SEAL who must stop a group of mercenaries, led by Tommy Lee Jones, on a U.S. Navy battleship. It was followed by a 1995 sequel,
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Above the Law (film):
Above the Law (also known as Nico: Above The Law, or simply Nico ) is a 1988 action film directed by Andrew Davis, probably best-known for being the film debut of Steven Seagal. This came about after a successful screen test, financed by Michael Ovit
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Code of Silence:
Code of Silence is a 1985 cult action film directed by Andrew Davis and staring Chuck Norris as a Chicago police officer who takes down a Chicago drug lord. Typical for the genre and the star, but filmed on location in Chicago with a few sub-plots. I
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The Package (film):
The Package was a 1989 Orion Pictures film directed by Andrew Davis. Set during the Cold War, this political thriller portrays an assassination conspiracy within both the U.S. and Soviet militaries. The Americans and Soviets are about to sign a disar
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The Guardian (2006 film):
The Guardian is a 2006 film starring Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, and Melissa Sagemiller that was released on September 29, 2006. The film was directed by Andrew Davis. The setting for the film is the United States Coast Guard and their Aviation Su
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The Fugitive (1993 film):
The Fugitive is a 1993 feature film, based on the television series of the same name. The film was directed by Andrew Davis and stars Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble, and Tommy Lee Jones as Deputy United States Marshal Samuel Gerard. Jones won an
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Harand Camp of the Theatre Arts:
Harand Camp of the Theatre Arts is a summer camp located at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin and based in Evanston, Illinois. The summer camp was founded by sisters Sulie and Pearl Harand and their husbands Byron and Sam (respectively) in 1954
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A Perfect Murder:
A Perfect Murder is a 1998 thriller film, made by Kopelson Entertainment and Warner Bros.. It was directed by Andrew Davis and starred Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow and Viggo Mortensen. It is a remake of the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film Dial M for M
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Chicago:
Chicago ( ) is the largest city in the state of Illinois, the largest in the Midwest, and, with a population of nearly 3 million people located almost entirely in Cook County (a portion of the city's O'Hare International Airport overlaps into DuPage
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Film:
Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or spe
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