John Irvin
Highest Rated: 100% Hamburger Hill (1987)
Lowest Rated: 4% Hemingway's Garden of Eden (2008)
Birthday: May 7, 1940
Birthplace: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, UK
A competent technician whose work has ranged from military action features ("The Dogs of War" 1980) to finely observed character studies ("Turtle Diary" 1985). Irvin began his career as an assistant director with British Transport Films. After shooting shorts and documentaries for a number of years and working extensively for English TV, Irvin broke through to American audience with the serialized adaptation of John le Carre's George Smiley novel, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" (1980). Thereafter, Irvin directed his first feature, "Dogs of War" a hot-headed (and some thought, racist) depiction of a military coup in Africa. He went on to handle a stream of mediocre "American" genre films: the sports picture "Champions" (1983), the Schwarzenegger vehicle "Raw Deal" (1986) and the sociologically-minded if somewhat reactionary Vietnam war film "Hamburger Hill" (1987), concluding with the negligible Patrick Swayze vehicle, "Next of Kin" (1989).
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John Irvin
Filmography
Movies
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4% |
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Hemingway's Garden of Eden | Director | $22.1K | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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The Moon and the Stars | Director | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
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Dot.Kill | Director | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet |
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The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha | Director | - | 2005 |
48% |
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The Boys From County Clare | Director | $139.3K | 2003 |
No Score Yet |
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Noah's Ark | Director | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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When Trumpets Fade | Director | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Crazy Horse | Director | - | 1996 |
71% |
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A Month by the Lake | Director | $1.1M | 1995 |
94% |
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Widows' Peak | Director | $6.2M | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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Freefall | Director | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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Robin Hood | Director | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Eminent Domain | Director | $81.9K | 1990 |
50% |
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Next of Kin | Director | $15.4M | 1989 |
100% |
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Hamburger Hill | Director | $11.4M | 1987 |
31% |
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Raw Deal | Director | $14.8M | 1986 |
82% |
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Turtle Diary | Director | $2.2M | 1985 |
No Score Yet |
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Champions | Director | - | 1984 |
29% |
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Ghost Story | Director | - | 1981 |
70% |
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The Dogs of War | Director | - | 1980 |
TV
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100% | 88% | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | Director | 1979 |