David Puttnam

Known for ProductionBorn 1941-02-25 (age 85)London, England, UK

David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, HonFRSA, HonFRPS, MRIA (born 25 February 1941) is a British-Irish film producer, educator, environmentalist and former member of the House of Lords. His productions include Chariots of Fire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, The Mission, The Killing Fields, Local Hero, Midnight Express and Memphis Belle. In 1982, he received the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema, and in 2006 he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Puttnam sat on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, although he was not principally a politician. In 2019 he was appointed chair to the select committee on democracy and digital technologies. The committee published its findings in its Digital Technology & the Resurrection of Trust report in June 2020. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Puttnam, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Bringing It All Back Home

Spécial cinéma

Forever Young

Reel Britannia

Ennio

Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up

Twiggy

Going Live!

The Genius of George Boole

The Frog Prince

The Killing Fields

My Generation

The Mission

James Dean: The First American Teenager

Arthur's Hallowed Ground

Midnight Express

The Meaning of Life

Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds

Timeshift

Experience Preferred... But Not Essential

The Duellists

P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang

Garbo

Without Warning: The James Brady Story

War of the Buttons

Sharma and Beyond

Melody

Swimming to Cambodia

Ennio Morricone

Memphis Belle

World in Action

Local Hero

Chariots of Fire

Glastonbury Fayre

Swastika

Mahler

Bugsy Malone

A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia

Defence of the Realm

The Burning Season

That'll Be The Day

Winter Flight

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

The Confessional

Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth

"I Thought Maybe I'd Get to Meet Alan Whicker": A Conversation with Bill Forsyth

The Josephine Baker Story

Meeting Venus