Person Details

Birthday: 1961-01-01 19:03:58

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: London, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 12

TV Involvements: 12


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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nick Willing is a British director, writer and producer of films and television programs. Willing is the son of Portuguese painter Paula Rego  and English artist Victor Willing and was largely brought up in Portugal, but settled in England at the age of 12. He graduated from The National Film and Television School in 1982 and started directing music videos for bands such as The Eurythmics, Bob Geldof, Swing Out Sister, Debbie Gibson, Kirsty MacColl, Kim Appleby, Tony Banks and Nik Kershaw. Throughout this period he was also writing screenplays, and in 1996 his adaptation of the Steve Szilagyi novel Photographing Fairies was financed by Polgram Filmed Entertainment and made into a feature film. Photographing Fairies was a critical success and won several awards including the Méliès d’Or in 1998. Alice in Wonderland followed with a cast which included Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Kingsley, Robbie Coltrane, Martin Short, Peter Ustinov, Gene Wilder, Ken Dodd, Christopher Lloyd, George Wendt and Miranda Richardson. Alice was made for NBC television in 1999 and won 4 Primetime Emmys. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nick Willing, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Alice in Wonderland
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Alice in Wonderland

(1999) Director
Alice
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7

Alice

(2009) Creator
Neverland
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6

Neverland

(2011) Writer
Tin Man
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7

Tin Man

(2007) Director
Photographing Fairies
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6

Photographing Fairies

(1997) Writer
Jason and the Argonauts
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6

Jason and the Argonauts

(2000) Creator
Baby Sellers
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7

Baby Sellers

(2013) Director
Altar
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5

Altar

(2014) Writer

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