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Clive Donner (1926-2010) was a British film director who worked in the British New Wave and Hollywood. He directed films such as The Caretaker, What's New Pussycat?, and Stealing Heaven, as well as TV movies and commercials.
Clive Donner. Director: The Guest. British director Clive Donner was born in West Hampstead, London, England. By age 18 he was already working in the film business, as an office clerk at Denham Studios. He eventually became an editor and then graduated to the director's chair.
Sep 7, 2010 · Film director Clive Donner, who helped launch the careers of actors such as Sir Ian McKellen and Alan Bates, has died at the age of 84. He had Alzheimer's and died in London, his...
Clive Donner was a British director who worked in film and TV, known for his adaptations of Dickens and Raphael. He died in 2010 from Alzheimer's disease.
Jan 25, 2019 · Clive Donner’s version, scripted by Frederic Raphael (Far from the Madding Crowd; Eyes Wide Shut) and now released on Blu-ray and DVD, is one of the strongest evocations of landscape of the time. The film shows how people must adapt to their role in an increasingly dangerous pre-war ecosystem, one that’s predicated on notions of survival of ...
Sep 8, 2010 · Once upon a time, back in the days when London was swinging, there was a director called Clive Donner whose unique voice captured the spirit of the age. Like John Hughes two decades later, but with a distinctly darker edge, he talked about disaffection, counterculture and angry young men before they were a part of mainstream discourse.
Donner established his international reputation with a stylish farce What's New, Pussycat? (US/France, 1965) written by Woody Allen and starring Peter O'Toole as a serial womaniser and Peter Sellers as the wacky psycho-analyst who attempts to cure him.
