“Come and make commercials and make some money”
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Tony Scott
Anthony David Leighton Scott was an English filmmaker. He made his theatrical film debut with The Hunger (1983) and went on to direct highly successful action and thriller films such as Top Gun (1986), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Days of Thunder (1990), The Last Boy Scout (1991), True Romance (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), Enemy of the State (1998), Man on Fire (2004), Déjà Vu (2006), The Taking of…
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entertainment · English filmmaker (1944–2012) · film director · film producer · director · also Tony Scott, Anthony David Scott, Anthony David Leighton Scott, Anthony Scott, Scott
Born 21 June 1944 · Died 19 August 2012 · Q193648
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2026· 3 entries
In Review Online: Betrayed By the Game: On Tony Scott, Baseball, and The Fan at 30
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AOL.com: Tony Scott dead: Beloved music icon dies aged 54 after devastating health battle
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Déjà Vu: Denzel Washington and Tony Scott’s massively underrated techno-thriller
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: True Romance: the perfect showcase for Tony Scott’s exuberant style
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2014· 2 entries
Released album “The Touch of Tony Scott”.
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Released album “Lost Tapes: Germany 1957 / Asia 1962”.
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: Tony Scott: Academy pays tribute at 2013 Oscars
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2012· 3 entries
The Guardian: Tony Scott remembered by Keira Knightley
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The Guardian: Tony Scott had antidepressant in system but no cancer
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Died 2012-08-19.
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2010· 2 entries
Received the BAFTA Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment
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The Scott brothers produced the feature film adaptation of the television series The A-Team
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2009· 1 entry
Tony and Ridley Scott were executive producers for The Good Wife, a legal drama television series
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “A Jazz Life”.
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2006· 1 entry
Contributed voice-over to a song called Dreamstalker on Hybrid's album I Choose Noise; Scott collaborated with Hybrid on several films through their mutual friend, the highly successful film score composer Harry Gregs
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2005· 1 entry
Tony Scott directed Domino, starring Keira Knightley
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “The Old Lion Roars”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “A Day in New York”.
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1999· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film for RKO 281 (1999).
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Released album “East Coast Sounds”.
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1996· 2 entries
Scott directed The Fan, starring Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin and Benicio del Toro
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Released album “In Afrika / Mayibue Afrika! Uhuuru!”.
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1995· 3 entries
Shepperton Studios was purchased by a consortium headed by Tony and Ridley Scott, which extensively renovated the studios – located in Britain – while also expanding and improving its grounds
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Both Tony and Ridley received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema
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Released album “1957”.
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1993· 2 entries
Scott directed True Romance costing just $13 million, from a script by Quentin Tarantino
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Released album “Oh Captain! The First Jazz Show‐Tune Album With Vocals”.
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1990· 1 entry
“stole from all race movies to date ... then tried to build on them.”
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Dedications”.
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1988· 3 entries
Released album “Meditation”.
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Released album “Astral Meditation - Voyage Into A Black Hole - Part 1”.
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Released album “Music for Yoga Meditation and Other Joys”.
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1987· 2 entries
To direct Eddie Murphy and Brigitte Nielsen in the highly anticipated sequel Beverly Hills Cop II
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Tony Scott had signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to develop films for a non-exclusive agreement, which will serve as producers and directors on the studio
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1986· 2 entries
To advertising executive Glynis Sanders; they divorced a year later when his affair with Brigitte Nielsen (married to Sylvester Stallone at the time), whom he met on the set of Beverly Hills Cop II, became public
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Released album “Sung Heroes”.
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1985· 1 entry
Producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer collaborated with Scott to direct Top Gun, having been impressed by The Hunger, and a commercial he had done for Swedish automaker Saab in 1983 featuring a Saab 900 racing a Sa
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “African Bird / Come Back! Mother Africa: To the Spirit of Charlie Parker”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “I'll Remember”.
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1982· 2 entries
Released album “I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 85”.
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Released album “Golden Moments”.
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1981· 1 entry
Released album “Conversation”.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “Boomerang”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Col D'Orcia Jazz: Concert for Brunello”.
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1975· 1 entry
To direct a television adaptation of the Henry James story The Author of Beltraffio
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1973· 1 entry
Released album “Manteca”.
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1972· 1 entry
Released album “Music For Voodoo Meditation”.
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1969· 1 entry
Made a short film based on the Ambrose Bierce story "One of the Missing"
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1968· 1 entry
Released album “Tony Scott”.
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1967· 1 entry
Released album “Djanger Bali”.
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1965· 1 entry
Released album “Music for Zen Meditation”.
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1959· 1 entry
Released album “Free Blown Jazz”.
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1958· 2 entries
Released album “The Modern Art Of Jazz”.
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Released album “52nd St. Scene”.
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1957· 2 entries
Released album “Tony Scott in South Africa”.
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Released album “My Kind of Jazz”.
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1955· 1 entry
Released album “Hi-Fi Jazz”.
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-06-21.
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