Person Details

Birthday: 1946-11-21 05:13:45

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

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Movie Involvements: 38

TV Involvements: 1


Most Famous Work

Biography

Andrew Davis (born November 21, 1946) is an American film director, producer and cinematographer, noted for the action films Code of Silence, The Fugitive, Chain Reaction, Collateral Damage, Above the Law and Under Siege. Born on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, Davis has directed several films using Chicago as a backdrop. He is the son of actor Nathan Davis and Metta Davis and the brother of musician Richard "Richie" Peter Davis co-founder of the cover band Chicago Catz and Jo Ellen Friedman. After attending Harand Camp of the Theater Arts and Bowen High School, Davis went on to study journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It was not long before his interest in civil rights and anti-war issues converged with his growing interest in film-making. Davis was mentored by acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler with whom he worked on Medium Cool and began his film career as a cameraman on blaxploitation films like The Hit Man, Cool Breeze and The Slams in the 1970s. His first feature film as a director was the semi-biographical story, Stony Island. Davis has gone on to direct such films as The Fugitive, Under Siege, Above the Law (both starring Steven Segal), Code of Silence, Holes, The Package and The Guardian. Davis also directed the cutscenes for the videogame Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. In October 2006, he told a London press conference that he intends to make a film fusing the novels Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes and Tom Jones by Henry Fielding. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrew Davis (film director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Most Famous Work

Chain Reaction
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6

Chain Reaction

(1996) Producer
Holes
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7

Holes

(2003) Producer
Just Legal
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0

Just Legal

(2005) Director
Under Siege
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6

Under Siege

(1992) Director
Beat Street
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7

Beat Street

(1984) Screenplay
Above the Law
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6

Above the Law

(1988) Screenplay
The Guardian
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7

The Guardian

(2006) Director
Collateral Damage
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6

Collateral Damage

(2002) Director

Acting

Directing

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2003 Producer
1996 Producer
1995 Producer
1989 Co-Producer
1988 Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Camera

Year Role Movie/Tv
1984 Director of Photography
1979 Director of Photography
1976 Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
1975 Director of Photography
1972 Director of Photography
Year Role Movie/Tv

Crew

Year Role Movie/Tv
1979 Cinematography
1973 Cinematography
1972 Cinematography
Cinematography
Year Role Movie/Tv

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