Filmmaker RogerSpottiswoode is a highly competent director of mainstream films.
The Canadian-born son of Raymond Spottiswoode, an ex-producer and technical planning officer with the National Film Board of Canada, young Spottiswoode was raised in Britain where he worked as a TV and documentary editor until he edited three Sam Peckinpah films Straw Dogs (1971), The Getaway (1972), and Pat Garrett (1973).
As a director, Spottiswoode came into his own with the 1983 political thriller Under Fire, which is one of the few films he was involved with from start to finish.
A native to England, Spottiswoode initially made a name for himself as an editor of British documentaries and commercials.
Moving to the United States in the early 1970's, Spottiswoode edited the controversial Straw Dogs, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, The Gambler, Hard Times, and The Getaway.
Spottiswoode's current projects include, the action flick The 6th Day, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Duvall, and The Devil's Pale Moonlit Kiss.
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