Roger Lindsey Donaldson (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. 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, the Cuban Missile Crisis docudrama
Thirteen Days (2000), the science-fiction horror film
Species (1995), the disaster film
Dante's Peak (1997), the Burt Munro biopic
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