Michael Winner

Michael Winner (London, 30 October 1935 – London , 21 January 2013) was a British filmmaker. He was known as the Director of The Mechanic (1972), Death Wish(1974) and The Sentinel (1977). He was also a culinary journalist for The Sunday Times . ==Biography[ Edit] == Winner was born as a son of Helen Zloty and George Joseph Winner. Already at the age of 14, he wrote articles for the newspaper. So, he came into contact with film legends such as James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. Later in life he joined the BBC. During the 1960s, he moved to film. So he directed Some Like it Cool (1961), The Cool Mikado (1962) and Hannibal Brooks (1969).

The latter film earned him the interest of Hollywood on. Winner moved to the United States and directed the feature film Lawman with Burt Lancaster and Robert Duvall.Afterwards, he directed the horror film The Nightcomers with Marlon Brando in the lead role. A year later followed Chato's Land and The Mechanic; the first collaborations with actor Charles Bronson. In that period the Winner also directed espionage film Scorpio again with Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster.

Producer Dino De Laurentiis also worked regularly with him together. So they took care for The Stone Killeragain, with Bronson in the lead role. In 1974 Winner and Bronson scored a hit with the revenge thriller Death Wish. The film became a cult film and Winner also later directed Death Wish II and Death Wish 3, but those movies could not match the success of the first film.

The last film of Winner, the romcom Parting Shots including John Cleese, Ben Kingsley, Diana Rigg and Bob Hoskins, dates back to 1999.

In 2007 Winner had a bacterial infection on after eating oysters. Since then faced Winner with health problems. On 21 January 2013 was making his wife known to Winner (77) after a short illness had died. ==Filmography[ Edit] ==
 * Shoot to Kill (1960)
 * Some Like It Cool (1961)
 * Old Mac (1961)
 * Out of the Shadow (1961)
 * Play it Cool (1962)
 * The Cool Mikado (1962)
 * West 11 (1963)
 * The System (1964)
 * You Must Be Joking! (1965)
 * The Jokers (1967)
 * I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
 * Hannibal Brooks (1969)
 * The Games (1970)
 * Lawman (1971)
 * The Nightcomers (1972)
 * Chato's Land (1972)
 * The Mechanic (1972)
 * Scorpio (1973)
 * The Stone Killer (1973)
 * Death Wish (1974)
 * Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
 * The Sentinel (1977)
 * The Big Sleep (1978)
 * Firepower (1979)
 * Death Wish II (1982)
 * The Wicked Lady (1983)
 * Scream for Help (1984)
 * Death Wish 3 (1985)
 * A Chorus of Disapproval (1988)
 * Appointment With Death (1988)
 * Bullseye! (1990)
 * Dirty Weekend (1993)
 * Parting Shots (1999)