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Bill Forsyth (born 29 July 1946, Glasgow) is a Scottish film director and writer, noted for his commitment to national film-making. Forsyth first came to attention with a low-budget film, That Sinking Feeling, made with youth theatre actors and featuring a cameo appearance by the Edinburgh gallery owner Richard Demarco.
Bill Forsyth put Scottish cinema on the map with this delightfully eccentric culture-clash comedy. Riffing on popular representations of Scottish life and folklore, Local Hero follows the Texas oil executive Mac (Peter Riegert), who is dispatched by his crackpot boss (Burt Lancaster) to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery.
Bill Forsyth. Director: Local Hero. Bill Forsyth was born on 29 July 1946 in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. He is a director and writer, known for Local Hero (1983), Gregory's Girl (1980) and Housekeeping (1987).
Aug 3, 2015 · Bill Forsyth: “Film has given me time, my life, a space to learn and to be creative”. Witty, charming, enjoyable, enchanting, and winning. Simply brilliant. That’s a perfect way to describe Bill Forsythe’s breakthrough and must-see little masterpieces such as “That Sinking Feeling” (1979), “Gregory’s Girl” (1981), and “Local ...
Oct 28, 2004 · Web Resources. Long before Ewan McGregor climbed into a toilet looking for heroin suppositories or Mel Gibson mooned the English army, when one thought of Scottish cinema, only one name came to mind: Bill Forsyth. A true pioneer, Forsyth became the small nation’s first internationally recognised filmmaker and helped to build from the ground ...
Mar 1, 2016 · There are plenty of Scottish actors and writers working in the movie business but strangely few directors. When you search for “Scottish film director”, top of the list is Bill Forsyth, who hasn’t made a film this century and is remembered primarily for two from the early 1980s – Gregory’s Girl (pictured below) and Local Hero (pictured above).
Bill Forsyth was born William David Forsyth in Glasgow on 29 July 1946 and educated at Knightswood School. On leaving school, aged 17, he answered an advertisement for a "Lad required for film company" and spent the next eight years making short documentary films. Leaving documentary production in 1977, Forsyth wrote the scripts for Gregory's ...
