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Martin Campbell

Highest Rated: 94% Casino Royale (2006)

Lowest Rated: 14% Beyond Borders (2003)

Birthday: Oct 24, 1943

Birthplace: Hastings, New Zealand

Though his work in film and television was produced in Britain and America, Martin Campbell's career was defined by traits that seem stereotypical of his New Zealand heritage: a cheerful lack of ego and a willingness to put in a hard day's work. It was this grounded, collaborative spirit that made him a perfect fit with the team behind the venerable James Bond franchise, which Campbell would have the distinction of re-inventing twice. Campbell's first outing with Bond, "GoldenEye" (1995), introduced Pierce Brosnan as the iconic spy re-imagined for a post-Cold War era. His second would rescue the series from the excesses of the late-nineties, rebooting it with "Casino Royale" (2006), a hard-hitting origin story starring Daniel Craig. Unschooled in film, Campbell had learned how to direct the way any laborer learns a trade - by apprenticeship. His first films, produced by pulp writer and Hammer horror veteran Tudor Gates, were exploitative sex comedies that served as laboratory experiments in creating fast-paced, crowd-pleasing films. Martin Campbell was a director who eschewed pretention and auteurism in favor of the fine art of pulse-pounding popcorn fare, bringing the heroics of legends such as James Bond, Zorro, and Green Lantern to marvelous, cinematic life.

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Highest-Rated Movies

94% 90% Casino Royale Watchlist 84% 73% The Mask of Zorro Watchlist
80% 83% GoldenEye
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66% 72% The Foreigner Watchlist 64% 82% The Protégé Watchlist
59% 41% No Escape
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54% 49% Edge of Darkness
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49% 41% Vertical Limit Watchlist
33% 27% Criminal Law
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32% 28% Dirty Angels
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Cleaner 2025 Director Dirty Angels 32% 28% 2024 Director, Screenwriter The Sound of 007 80% 2022 Self Memory 29% 80% 2022 Director The Protégé 64% 82% 2021 Director The Foreigner 66% 72% 2017 Director The Taking 2014 Executive Producer Green Lantern 25% 45% 2011 Director Freight 25% 2010 Executive Producer Edge of Darkness 54% 49% 2010 Director Casino Royale 94% 90% 2006 Director The Legend of Zorro 27% 48% 2005 Director Beyond Borders 14% 72% 2003 Director Vertical Limit 49% 41% 2000 Director, Producer The Mask of Zorro 84% 73% 1998 Director GoldenEye 80% 83% 1995 Director No Escape 59% 41% 1994 Director Defenseless 37% 1991 Director Cast a Deadly Spell 57% 1991 Director Criminal Law 33% 27% 1988 Director Frankie and Johnnie 1986 Director Eskimo Nell 40% 1975 Director The Sex Thief 1973 Director
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