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Alan Birkinshaw is a British film director, born on 15 June, 1944 in Auckland, New Zealand. He is best known for his work on the films The Wicker Man (1973), The Final Programme (1973), and The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976).
Birkinshaw began his career in the film industry in the late 1960s, working as an assistant director on a number of British films. He made his directorial debut in 1972 with the horror film The Wicker Man, which was a critical and commercial success. He followed this up with the science fiction film The Final Programme (1973) and the cult classic The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976).
Birkinshaw has also directed a number of television films, including The Haunting of Julia (1977), The Medusa Touch (1978), and The Awakening (1980). He has also directed episodes of the television series The Professionals (1977-1978) and The Avengers (1978-1979).
Birkinshaw has been married twice, first to actress Jenny Agutter and then to actress Joanna Lumley. He has two children from his first marriage.
As of 2021, Alan Birkinshaw's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.
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78 years old |
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Gemini |
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15 June, 1944 |
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15 June |
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Auckland, New Zealand |
| Nationality |
New Zealand |
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Alan Birkinshaw Height, Weight & Measurements
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Alan Birkinshaw Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Alan Birkinshaw worth at the age of 78 years old? Alan Birkinshaw’s income source is mostly from being a successful Director. He is from New Zealand. We have estimated
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
As of 2003, was based in London and the co-owner of a furniture company.
In a Swiss/German/ French co-production Birkinshaw directed the true story of a Swiss boxer in Punch (1993) starring Donald Sutherland. The boxing sequences in this movie were hailed as extraordinary given the time and the budget.
By now Birkinshaw was getting a reputation for tough assignments and he was called in to direct an action series called Zorc (1992) with the volatile German actor Klaus Löwitsch. After this was finished, Birkinshaw was in Africa with more tough actors.
'Oliver Reed' in The House of Usher (1989) was just one of them.
Birkinshaw was Additional Director (uncredited) on Ordeal by Innocence (1984). starring Donald Sutherland. Soon afterwards Birkinshaw found himself in India making a dramatized documentary on the life of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. This was commissioned by the then Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, and caused questions to be asked in the Indian Parliament.
After another two short films, "Henley" and "The Circus", Birkinshaw went to the Philippines to make an action-adventure movie called "Greed" (eventually released as Horror Safari (1982)), starring Stuart Whitman, Harold Sakata and Edmund Purdom. It wasn't easy getting finance for movies in England, and he soon went back to making commercials, at the same time setting up his own film distribution and production company, West World Films.
Next, a short film called Dead End (1980), which Birkinshaw also wrote and directed. It was the first film for the multi Oscar-nominated composer George Fenton. The film had a major release in the UK and went on to be shown all around the world.
One of his first theatrical films was a horror movie, Killer's Moon (1978), which he also produced and co-wrote with Fay Weldon. This has since become a cult film, attracting a certain amount of controversy, and 30 years after its production is being studied in universities and other film courses.
Alan Birkinshaw started his working career as a Jackaroo in Australia. Soon afterwords he became a horse breaker and then a rodeo rider. He returned to the UK and on his 20th birthday joined Lew Grade's ATV as a television cameraman working on mainstream dramas and light entertainment shows. After 18 months he left ATV and became a freelance TV cameraman. At age 22 he directed and produced his first television drama, "A Nice Dream While It Lasted", written by his sister, renowned author Fay Weldon. At 24 Birkinshaw was directing television programs for Westward Television and then London Weekend Television, including quiz shows, farming programs, live television news shows and drama. He directed a ground-breaking, before-its-time, light entertainment show beamed down to the UK from a circling airplane. This was for a pirate TV station run by the then infamous Ronan O'Rahilly, who began the first-ever pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, in the 1960s. Soon after that he turned to documentaries and commercials and then moved into the world of feature films.
