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	Richard Loncraine was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in 1946. His film career started at the Royal College of Art Film School where he went after studying sculpture at the Central School of Art. To help pay his way through college he began selling antique pub mirrors and 'hot' and 'cold' cufflinks made from taps in Carnaby Street. This later led to the formation of Loncraine Broxton, with his partner Peter Broxton, a company which makes executive toys including "Newton's Cradle" and "Aquabatics" and for whom Loncraine's designs have won a number of Design Council Awards... (more)   Hugh Whitemore began his career in British television writing many original plays and dramatizations. He received Writers' Guild Awards for his dramatizations of CIDER WITH ROSIE and for his contribution to Granada's celebrated COUNTRY MATTERS series. With director Franc Roddam, he created the controversial drama/documentary, DUMMY, which won the RAI Prize in the 1979 Prix Italia. His most recent TV work was the Channel 44 adaptation of Anthony Powell's novel, A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME, which won the script prize at the 1998 Monte Carlo Festival. He has also written for American television, notably - four hour film about the Alger Hiss case - which won an Emmy for the best mini-series. His dramatization of the Bob Woodward/Carl Bernstein book, THE FINAL DAYS, received an Emmy nomination for outstanding writing... (more)   Ridley Scott was born in South Shields, Northumberland, England. He studied at the West Hartlepool College of Art where he excelled at graphic design and painting. Scott also studied at the Royal Academy of Art where his contemporaries included David Hockney. It was there that Scott joined the newly formed school and made his first short film... (more)   British director Tony Scott has had a consistent string of successes in films and commercials and shows no sign of slowing down. Born in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England, Scott attended the Sunderland Art School where he received a fine arts degree in painting. While completing a yearlong post-graduate study at Leeds College, he developed an interest in cinematography and made ONE OF THE MISSING, a half hour film financed by the British Film Institute and based on an Ambrose Bierce short story. He then went on to earn his Master of Fine Arts degree at the Royal College of Arts, completing another film for the British Film Institute, LOVING MEMORY, from an original script financed by Albert Finney... (more)

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