Michael Winner

Also known as Robert Michael Winner

English film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter (1935-2013)

Person · Open Library

Works: 17

Top works

Erotic Coloring Book
Michael Winner's Hymie Joke Book
Lights in the Dark
Tales I Never Told!
Michael Winner : Winner Takes All

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Group
Origin: South Korea
Active from: 2013

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Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 57
Total plays: 147

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 85,648x
Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,869x
Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,966x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,728x
Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,035x

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Quotes

“A team effort is a lot of people, doing what I say.”
“I think with less accomplished actors you often have to play tricks [...] You may actually want to upset them to make them look upset on the screen so they carry that forward.”
“[To extras dressed as London policemen] You're just standing there! DOING NOTHING! Why should I pay you for doing nothing? I want you to run. You understand run! [...] R-U-N? RUN?”
“[From the section entitled "Winner Talking" in a personal booklet] Lunacy is a very important quality for a successful director. Most top directors are quite a bit batty. That's what makes them great. They can conceive fantasies beyond the normal mind. Another quality is just keeping alive. It is quite remarkable that no director has been murdered in cold blood on the set.”
“I think the lesbians have come over with considerable dignity and you have come over as an arsehole.”
“If I could go back, I would spend much more, earlier. No question. This sounds absolutely crass, but I would have taken private planes earlier, would have had a chauffeur and better cars earlier, I'd have bought better paintings earlier.”

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Key facts

Born: Michael Robert Winner , ( 1935-10-30 ) 30 October 1935, Hampstead, London , England
Died: 21 January 2013 (2013-01-21) (aged 77), Kensington, London , England
Resting place: Willesden Jewish Cemetery
Other name: Arnold Crust
Alma mater: Downing College, Cambridge
Occupations: Film director and producer , screenwriter , film editor , food writer , media personality
Years active: 1955–2013
Spouse: Geraldine Lynton-Edwards, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2011 )

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Wikidata facts

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Commons category: Michael Winner
date of birth: 1935-10-30
date of death: 2013-01-21
start of work period: 1955-00-00
end of work period: 2012-00-00

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Michael Robert Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) was a British filmmaker, writer, and media personality. He is known for directing numerous action, thriller, and black comedy films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, including several collaborations with actors Oliver Reed and Charles Bronson.

Winner's best-known works include Death Wish (1974) and its first two sequels Death Wish II (1982) and Death Wish 3 (1985), the World War II comedy Hannibal Brooks (1969), the hitman thriller The Mechanic (1972), the supernatural horror film The Sentinel (1977), the neo-noir The Big Sleep (1978), the satirical comedy Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976), and the Revisionist Westerns Lawman (1971) and Chato's Land (1972).