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Jon Amiel is an English director who has worked in film and television in both the UK and the US. He is known for his films Sommersby, Copycat, Entrapment and Creation, and his TV series The Tudors, Marco Polo and The Walking Dead.
Jon Amiel. Director: Copycat. After studies in English literature, Jon Amiel graduated from Cambridge University and ran the Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company, which often toured the USA.
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Jon Amiel is a British film director who started his career in theatre and TV. He is known for his adaptations of Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective and Mario Vargas Llosa's Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter.
- May 20, 1948
An acclaimed British TV director, notably of Dennis Potter's surreal musical mystery drama "The Singing Detective" (BBC, 1986-87; PBS 1988), Jon Amiel successfully...
Directed by Jon Amiel and produced for the BBC by Kenith Trodd and John Harris, The Singing Detective was, by any measure, an unusual and complex series.
- Adam Scovell
Jan 21, 2010 · Not many books have been as consequential as “Origin of Species,” and Mr. Bettany’s Darwin, as imagined by the director Jon Amiel and the screenwriter John Collee, has more than an inkling of...
Creation: Directed by Jon Amiel. With Paul Bettany, Ian Kelly, Guy Henry, Martha West. Torn between faith and science, and suffering hallucinations, English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to complete 'On the Origin of Species' and maintain his relationship with his wife.
