Michael Deeley

...Italian Job, Blade Runner and The Deer Hunter. He is also a founding member and Deputy Chairman of The British Screen Advisory Council. Deeley was appointed General Manager of Woodfall Films in 1964 which acquired British Lion Films in 1973.

In this article: Academy Award, British Lion Films, The Italian Job, EMI Films, Blade Runner, and The Deer Hunter

...to diminish the intensity of his loathing for that film's director, Michael Cimino. "To this day," Deeley writes, "the only flaw I find in my Oscar is that Cimino's name is also engraved on it. I keep it on a very high shelf, so that I...

In this article: Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter, Blade Runner, The Italian Job, Michael Caine, Warren Beatty, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Monty Python, and The Wicker Man

Michael Deeley Blade Runners, Deer Hunters, and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: My Life in Cult Movies by Michael Deeley Writer: Michael Deeley; Genres: Autobiography, Nonfiction; Publisher: Pegasus Books According to Michael Deeley,...

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...name changed. In his autobiography, Blade Runners, Deer Hunters and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off, producer Michael Deeley recounts how he instigated the change of name of Philip K Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, as selling...

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Two years later, he joined Nelson Entertainment, of which he became president in the 1980s. 1975: Conduct Unbecoming (producer with Michael Deeley and Andrew Donally) 1976: ''The Man Who Fell to Earth '' (producer with Michael...

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...had made it and it was the most beautiful lovemaking scene with Donald Sutherland." However despite Deeley insisting the duo were merely acting, he understands Beatty's anger. He added saying that there had been a similar sort of fuss with...

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And he was so upset by the scene, Beatty journeyed to the English home of producer Michael Deeley in a bid to get it cut from the final edit. Deeley tells BBC Radio 4, "Warren came over to England and knocked on my door one night to say...

In this article: Warren Beatty, Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, BBC Radio 4, Jane Fonda, Klute, Don't Look Now, Hollywood, and England

...[Beatty s] girlfriends, or former girlfriends, being looked after rather cosily by Donald Sutherland. London-born Deeley, 76, admitted he hated to see remakes of classic films, including his own movies The Wicker Man and The Italian Job.

In this article: Donald Sutherland, The Italian Job, Julie Christie, Mafia, Michael Caine, Warren Beatty, Hollywood, and London

...see the award but not the unpleasantness minutely chiselled there." Years later, Michael Cimino called Michael Deeley a moron, and Deeley agrees: "We must have been morons to deal with him!" There's a lot of black humour in the book -...

In this article: Benny Hill, Julie Christie, Michael Cimino, The Italian Job, Ridley Scott, Sam Peckinpah, Warren Beatty, Blade Runner, and The Deer Hunter

...and entertaining read": high praise indeed by this dour director's standards. But Caine and Scott both worked with Deeley on two of the producer's best known movies, The Italian Job and Blade Runner. Can we trust their endorsements of his...

In this article: Michael Caine, Warren Beatty, The Deer Hunter, The Italian Job, Ridley Scott, Blade Runner, Don't Look Now, Sawdust, and Academy Award