Roger donaldson biography

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    • Roger Donaldson

    Australian-New Zealand filmmaker

    Roger Lindsey DonaldsonONZM (born 15 November 1945) is an Australian and New Zealand film director, screenwriter, and producer. His 1977 debut film, Sleeping Dogs, is considered landmark work of New Zealand cinema, as one of the country’s first films to attract large-scale critical and commercial success.[1] He has subsequently directed 17 feature films, working in Hollywood and the United Kingdom, as well as his native country.

    Donaldson’s best-known films include the historical drama The Bounty (1984), the neo-noir No Way Out (1987), the romantic comedy Cocktail (1988), the Cuban Missile CrisisdocudramaThirteen Days (2000), the science-fiction horror film Species (1995), the disaster film Dante's Peak (1997), the Burt Munro biopic The World's Fastest Indian (2005), and the historical thriller The Bank Job (2008).[2]

    Donaldson has worked twice each with actors Kevin Costner, Pierce Brosn