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Donald Seton Cammell (17 January 1934 – 24 April 1996) was a Scottish painter, screenwriter, and film director. He has a cult reputation largely due to his debut film Performance, which he wrote the screenplay for and co-directed with Nicolas Roeg.
Donald Cammell was a British writer/director who made cult-classic films like Performance and Demon Seed. He committed suicide in 1996 after a dispute with producers over his final film Wild Side.
- January 1, 1
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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- Hollywood, California, USA
Dec 12, 2002 · Donald Cammell went to Hollywood to edit Performance, a two-year struggle with studio heads who didn’t know what to do with such a strange and outrageous film. He was to stay in Hollywood for the rest of his life.
- Maximilian Le Cain
Sep 20, 2017 · Donald Cammell The Ultimate Performance - YouTube. Transmission. 77 subscribers. Subscribed. 48. 3.8K views 6 years ago. ...more. Documentary shown in the UK as part of the BBC's arts strand...
British writer/director Donald Cammell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1934, came from a wealthy shipbuilding family. He began his career as a painter, and by the mid-1960s was celebrated among the "Swinging London" crowd.
Donald Seton Cammell was named Seton after his godfather, the much respected Scottish naturalist Seton Gordon. He was born in Edinburgh in the Outlook Tower by the castle; his father Charles...
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An artist by trade, Cammell was chiefly known for the extraordinary film he co-directed in 1968 -- Performance, a mystic, druggy study of art, crime and insanity. It stars James Fox as Chas, a fugitive gangster, and Mick Jagger as Turner, the reclusive rock star who takes him in. Turner is burned out and knows Chas will eventually kill him.
