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John Milius

Highest Rated: 97% Jaws (1975)

Lowest Rated: 23% Flight of the Intruder (1991)

Birthday: Apr 11, 1944

Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, USA

A self-described Zen anarchist, writer-director John Milius was called far worse by friend and foe - everything from a self-styled fusion of Hemingway and Genghis Khan to the Hermann Goering of film directors. Such pat labels, however, failed to convey the depth and emotion on display in a Milius film, despite his unquenchable thirst for militarism and glorification of violence. Whether taking audiences on a journey into man's heart of darkness during the Vietnam War or depicting the uncommon friendship of two plebian soldiers from the Roman Empire, Milius made some of Hollywood's most memorable and hackle-raising films and television series. While his gun-toting, right-wing politics remained largely at odds from mainstream Hollywood, Milius nonetheless carved out a substantial - albeit, lonely - niche that allowed him to maintain his trademark individualism, while pushing his brash contrarian views.

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Highest-Rated Movies

97% 91% Jaws Watchlist 94% 87% Milius Watchlist 93% 75% Dillinger Watchlist 93% 91% Apocalypse Now Redux Watchlist 91% 89% Jeremiah Johnson Watchlist 91% 94% Apocalypse Now Watchlist 88% 88% The Hunt for Red October Watchlist 81% 74% Clear and Present Danger Watchlist 80% 67% Hardcore Watchlist 77% 69% Used Cars Watchlist
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John Milius

John Milius DILLINGER, from left: writer-director John Milius, Warren Oates, on location in Oklahoma, 1973 RED DAWN, Director John Milius on set, 1984 © MGM/ FAREWELL TO THE KING, Nigel Havers, director John Milius, Nick Nolte on set, 1989, (c)Orion Pictures FAREWELL TO THE KING, Director John Milius on set, 1989 ©ORION/ FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER, Director John Milius on set, 1991, ©Paramount/ THE WIND AND THE LION, director and screenwriter John Milius, 1975 CONAN THE BARBARIAN, director John Milius on set, 1982, (c)Universal Pictures View more photos

Filmography

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Milius 94% 87% 2013 Self Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray 2011 Narrator Between the Lines: The True Story of Surfers and the Vietnam War 2008 Narrator Apocalypse Now Redux 2001 Actor Motorcycle Gang 33% 1994 Director Clear and Present Danger 81% 74% 1994 Screenwriter Geronimo: An American Legend 52% 52% 1993 Writer Flight of the Intruder 23% 51% 1991 Director The Hunt for Red October 88% 88% 1990 Writer Farewell to the King 55% 53% 1989 Director Red Dawn 48% 65% 1984 Director, Writer Uncommon Valor 60% 61% 1983 Producer Conan the Barbarian 67% 74% 1982 Director, Screenwriter Used Cars 77% 69% 1980 Executive Producer Apocalypse Now 91% 94% 1979 Writer 1941 39% 48% 1979 Writer, Executive Producer Hardcore 80% 67% 1979 Executive Producer Apocalypse Now Redux 93% 91% 1979 Screenwriter Big Wednesday 64% 87% 1978 Director, Screenwriter Summer of Innocence 1978 Director The Wind and the Lion 63% 69% 1975 Director, Screenwriter Jaws 97% 91% 1975 Writer Magnum Force 69% 78% 1973 Screenwriter Dillinger 93% 75% 1973 Director, Writer Jeremiah Johnson 91% 89% 1972 Screenwriter
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