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Donald Seton Cammell (17 January 1934 – 24 April 1996) was a Scottish painter, screenwriter, and film director. He has a cult reputation largely due to his debut film Performance, which he wrote the screenplay for and co-directed with Nicolas Roeg.
Donald Cammell was a British writer/director who made cult-classic films like Performance and Demon Seed. He committed suicide in 1996 after a dispute with producers over his final film Wild Side.
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- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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- Hollywood, California, USA
Donald Seton Cammell was named Seton after his godfather, the much respected Scottish naturalist Seton Gordon. He was born in Edinburgh in the Outlook Tower by the castle; his...
British writer/director Donald Cammell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1934, came from a wealthy shipbuilding family. He began his career as a painter, and by the mid-1960s was celebrated among the "Swinging London" crowd.
Dec 12, 2002 · Donald Cammell went to Hollywood to edit Performance, a two-year struggle with studio heads who didn’t know what to do with such a strange and outrageous film. He was to stay in Hollywood for the rest of his life.
- Maximilian Le Cain
An artist by trade, Cammell was chiefly known for the extraordinary film he co-directed in 1968 -- Performance, a mystic, druggy study of art, crime and insanity. It stars James Fox as Chas, a fugitive gangster, and Mick Jagger as Turner, the reclusive rock star who takes him in. Turner is burned out and knows Chas will eventually kill him.
Apr 24, 1996 · A biography and filmography of Donald Cammell, a Scottish film director who co-directed Performance with Nicolas Roeg. Learn about his other works, such as White of the Eye, Demon Seed, and The Argument.
