1937-11-30 ( 87 years old ) in South Shields, County Durham, England, UK
Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937) is an English filmmaker. He was raised in an Army family, meaning that for most of his early life, his father — an officer in the Royal Engineers — was absent. Ridley's older brother, Frank, joined the Merchant Navy when he was still young and the pair had little contact. During this time the family moved around, living in (among other areas) Cumbria, Wales and Germany. He has a younger brother, Tony, also a film director. After the Second World War, the Scott family moved back to their native north-east England, eventually settling in Teesside (whose industrial landscape would later inspire similar scenes in Blade Runner). He enjoyed watching films, and his favourites include Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane and Seven Samurai. Scott studied in Teesside from 1954 to 1958, at Grangefield Grammar School and later in West Hartlepool College of Art, graduating with a Diploma in Design. He progressed to an M.A. in graphic design at the Royal College of Art from 1960 to 1962.
At the RCA he contributed to the college magazine, ARK and helped to establish its film department. For his final show, he made a black and white short film, Boy and Bicycle, starring his younger brother, Tony Scott, and his father. The film's main visual elements would become features of Scott's later work; it was issued on the 'Extras' section of The Duellists DVD. After graduation in 1963, he secured a job as a trainee set designer with the BBC, leading to work on the popular television police series Z-Cars and the science fiction series Out of the Unknown. Scott was an admirer of Stanley Kubrick early in his development as a director. For his entry to the BBC traineeship, Scott remade Paths of Glory as a short film.
He was assigned to design the second Doctor Who serial, The Daleks, which would have entailed realising the famous alien creatures. However, shortly before Scott was due to start work, a schedule conflict meant that he was replaced on the serial by Raymond Cusick.
At the BBC, Scott was placed into a director training programme and, before he left the corporation, had directed episodes of Z-Cars, its spin-off, Softly, Softly, and adventure series Adam Adamant Lives!
In 1968, Ridley and Tony Scott founded Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), a film and commercial production company.Five members of the Scott family are directors, all working for RSA. Brother Tony has been a successful film director for more than two decades; sons, Jake and Luke are both acclaimed commercials directors as is his daughter, Jordan Scott. Jake and Jordan both work from Los Angeles and Luke is based in London.
In 1995, Shepperton Studios was purchased by a consortium headed by Ridley and Tony Scott, which extensively renovated the studios while also expanding and improving its grounds.
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Alien, Terror in Space
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The Making of Gladiator II
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
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Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero
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Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022-08-12
The Making of the Last Duel
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The Blade Runner Phenomenon
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Kreka: Dreamcatcher
2021-05-16
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019-01-24
Trumbull Land
2018-10-15
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
2017-11-12
Robin Hood - En vert et contre tous
2017-07-30
The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'
2016-06-07
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
2015-08-07
Trespassing Bergman
2013-08-28
The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
2012-10-11
The Real Robin Hood
2010-05-11
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007-12-18
Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard
2007-12-03
Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film
2007-12-03
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
2007-12-03
Black Rain: Making The Film
2006-10-10
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006-07-22
The Path to Redemption
2006-05-23
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
2005-09-13
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005-03-01
Murder by Numbers
2004-03-16
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003-12-02
Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey
2003-02-04
The Alien Saga
2002-11-13
Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend'
2002-05-21
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001-08-21
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001-04-01
Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport
2000-11-21
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000-07-15
The Alien Legacy
1999-06-01
Hollywood Halloween
1997-01-01
A Turnip Head’s Guide To The British Cinema
1986-01-01
Giger's Alien
1979-05-25
One of the Missing
1968-12-02
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