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Simon West

Film Director / Actor / Screenwriter / Film Producer / Television Director | * 07/17/1961 (62) | Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England (United Kingdom (UK))
Simon Alexander West (born 17 July 1961) is an English film director and producer. He has primarily worked in the action genre, most notably as the director of the films Con Air, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Mechanic, and The Expendables 2. Outside of action, he also directed the films The General's Daughter and When a Stranger Calls. Prior to his film career, West served as the director for music videos, including "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley. ()
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Simon West (born 1961) is an English-born film director. West started as a film editor with the BBC, then directed documentaries and commercials including many for Budweiser. His film directing career started when he directed Con Air in 1997.

Most frequent genres for this person: Action | Thriller | Adventure

Known for these Movies & Shows

When the body of Army Capt. Elizabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncove ...

The General's Daughter

R

1999 | 3.2/5 | 1h 56min
Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Crime
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Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group ...

Con Air

R

1997 | 3.4/5 | 1h 56min
Action, Thriller, Crime
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When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing. ...

Wild Card

R

2015 | 2.8/5 | 1h 32min
Thriller, Crime, Action
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English aristocrat Lara Croft is skilled in hand-to-hand combat and in the middle of a battle with a secret society. The shapely archaeologist moonlights as a tomb raider to recover lost antiquities a ...

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

PG-13

2001 | 2.9/5 | 1h 40min
Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Thriller
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Movies with Simon West as Actor(2)

as himself2012 Gods of War: Assembling Earth's Mightiest Anti-Heroes
as John Walker1974 Swallows and Amazons

Movies with Simon West as Crew(17)

Directing/Director2021 The Legend Hunters
Directing/Director2019 Skyfire
Directing/Director2017 Gun Shy
Production/Producer2017 Gun Shy
Production/Executive Producer2017 The Saint
Directing/Director2017 Stratton
Directing/Director2015 Wild Card
Production/Producer2015 Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn
Directing/Director2012 The Expendables 2
Directing/Director2012 Stolen
Directing/Director2011 The Mechanic
Directing/Director2006 When a Stranger Calls
Directing/Director2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Writing/Adaptation2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Production/Executive Producer2001 Black Hawk Down
Directing/Director1999 The General's Daughter
Directing/Director1997 Con Air

TV Shows/Series with Simon West as Crew(5)

Directing/Director2022 Boundless
Directing/Director2011 The Cape
Directing/Director2010 Human Target
Production/Executive Producer2010 Human Target
Directing/Director2003 Keen Eddie

Full Name: Simon West
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Monday, 07/17 1961 (July) in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England (United Kingdom (UK)) (current age: 62 years + 277 days)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Ox)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Fearnhill School
Simon West frequently works together with these people:
Jib Polhemus (5x, Crew)
David Leitch (4x, Crew)
Alan Caudillo (4x, Crew)
Noon Orsatti (4x, Crew)
Glen Scantlebury (4x, Crew)
Richard Wenk (3x, Crew)
Chad Stahelski (3x, Crew)
J.D. Evermore (3x, Actor)
Danny Dimbort (3x, Crew)
Wendy Burch (3x, Actress)
Trevor Short (3x, Crew)
Peter Menzies Jr. (3x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:2083, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/12/2024