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British film director, screenwriter and producer

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Edgar Wright is a person who began his work period in 1995. He is associated with the English tag and has a height of 1.73. His social media presence includes 908,852 followers.

According to Open Library records, an author named Edgar Wright was born in 1920 and has seven works, including "The critical evaluation of African literature," "Mrs. Gaskell," "Pardners," "The representative old cowboy," "Ed Wright," and "Zombies Party (En español)." Crossref data indicates a works count of five for this name. MusicBrainz lists the country as US.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1920
Works
7

Top works

  • The critical evaluation of African literature
  • Mrs. Gaskell
  • Pardners
  • The representative old cowboy, Ed Wright
  • Zombies Party (En español)

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1953-12-21
Active to
2020-05-10

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
7,604
Total plays
18,713

Tags

english

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Edgar+Wright">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Edgar Wright

Key facts

Born
Edgar Howard Wright , ( 1974-04-18 ) 18 April 1974 (age 52) , Poole , Dorset, England
Alma mater
Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design
Occupations
Film director film producer screenwriter
Years active
1994–present

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English filmmaker. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive use of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a signature editing style that includes transitions, whip pans and wipes. He first made independent short films before making his first feature film A Fistful of Fingers in 1995. Wright created and directed the comedy series Asylum in 1996, written with David Walliams. After directing several other television shows, Wright directed the sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), which aired for two series and starred frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

In 2004, Wright directed the zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead, starring Pegg and Frost, the first film in Wright's Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. The film was co-written with Pegg—as were the next two entries in the trilogy, the buddy cop film Hot Fuzz (2007) and the science fiction comedy The World's End (2013). In 2010, Wright co-wrote and directed the action comedy film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, an adaptation of the graphic novel series. Along with Joe Cornish and Steven Moffat, he adapted The Adventures of Tintin (2011) for Steven Spielberg. Wright and Cornish co-wrote the screenplay for the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Ant-Man in 2015, which Wright intended to direct but abandoned, citing creative differences. He has also written and directed the action films Baby Driver (2017) and The Running Man (2025), the documentary The Sparks Brothers, and the psychological horror film Last Night in Soho (both 2021).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edgar Wright” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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