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Donald Seaton Cammell (17 January 1934 – 24 April 1996) was a Scottish film director who has a cult reputation thanks to his debut film ''Performance'', which he co-directed with Nicolas Roeg. ==Biography== Cammell was born in the Camera Obscura (then known as Outlook Tower) on Castlehill, near the castle in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of the poet and writer Charles Richard Cammell. He was educated at Shrewsbury House School and Westminster School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fan Tan )〕 The older Cammell wrote a biography of Aleister Crowley focusing principally on the occultist's poetry. Crowley, who lived near the Cammells for a time, knew the young Donald. A prodigy who drew the richly medieval illustrations in a now sought-after 1952 children's King Arthur book by Alice Hadfield (the originals now lost), he was a society portrait painter and thanks to family connections, a prominent fixture of the "swinging London" social scene of the 1960s, specifically of what became known as the "Chelsea Set." One of his early forays into films was the rarely seen 1968 movie ''The Touchables'', directed by Beatles photographer Robert Freeman, which Cammell co-scripted with his brother David. He wrote and co-directed ''Performance'' with Nicolas Roeg in 1968, though he didn't get another film produced until ''Demon Seed'' in 1977. Cammell also made the eccentric horror thriller ''White of the Eye'' in 1987. Between infrequent film and TV directing jobs, Cammell directed music videos for the likes of U2. When Cammell's 1995 film ''Wild Side'' was cut by the producer, he committed suicide in Hollywood, California, by shooting himself. His wife claimed the wound was not immediately fatal and that he asked for a mirror so that he could watch himself die; the claim would later be disputed in Cammell's published biography. A posthumous director's cut, commissioned by FilmFour and edited by his widow and co-screenwriter China Kong and editor Frank Mazzola, was released in 2000 to critical acclaim. In 2005, ''Fan-Tan'', a novel Cammell conceived with actor Marlon Brando in 1978, was published. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donald Cammell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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