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Guy Hamilton

1922 - 2016Directing

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Statistics

Total Movies
8
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Total Box Office
$537.5M
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Domestic Gross
35%
$188.5M
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International Gross
65%
$349.0M
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Average per Movie
$67.2M
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Total Budget
$79.2M
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Profitability Gap
+$149.1M
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Avg ROI
13.9x
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Opening Weekends
$5.1M
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Highest Grossing
$161.8M
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Biography

Mervyn Ian ​Guy Hamilton, DSC (September 16, 1922 – April 20, 2016) was an English film director. Hamilton was born in Paris, France where his English parents were living. Remaining in France during the Nazi occupation, he was active in the French Resistance. After the end of the war, he worked as an assistant to Carol Reed on films including The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949), before turning to directing with his first film The Ringer in 1952. He made 22 films from the 1950s to the 1980s, including four installments of the James Bond series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming. He was married at one time to actress Naomi Chance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Guy Hamilton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Personal Information

BirthdaySeptember 16, 1922
Date of DeathApril 20, 2016
Place of BirthParis, Ile-de-France, France
Known ForDirecting