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Duncan Gibbins Born October 13, 1952
Cornwall, EnglandDied November 3, 1993 (aged 41) Occupation Director Years active 1986–1993 Duncan Gibbins (October 13, 1952 - November 3, 1993) was a British film and music video director, as well as a screenwriter.[1] Gibbins was known for his romance and thriller films as well as for the various music videos he directed.[2] Gibbons first break was with the 1986 release of, Fire with Fire, about a young woman who attends a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp who fall in love with each other and must runaway together to escape the law, the church and their parents.[3] On November 3, 1993, Gibbons died as a result of third degree burns he received from a fire at the home he was renting. He was forty-one years old at the time of his death.[4]
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Biography
Gibbons was born in Cornwall, England on October 13, 1952. After attending The Arthur Terry School in Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, he started his career out as an actor on radio and in television, as a reporter for BBC Midlands Today. At one point, Gibbins decided that he wanted to try out journalism but found that he did not much care for it. Before coming to the U.S. in the mid-1980s, he produced and directed a few documentaries for the BBC and made music videos for such groups as the Eurythmics and Wham!.[5] He made his feature-film debut in the U.S. with the 1986 romantic drama film, Fire with Fire in 1986 which starred actors Craig Sheffer and Virginia Madsen.[6] Gibbins later co-penned the script for Roger Spottiswoode's Third Degree Burn, a made-for-TV movie in 1989. In 1991, Gibbins released Eve of Destruction, an action thriller film starring Gregory Hines about a female scientist who creates a sexy android version of herself and equips it with both the passionate emotions she lacks and also a nuclear bomb, then the trouble begins.[7] Gibbins made his final film, A Case for Murder in 1993, which starred Jennifer Grey and Peter Berg about a lawyer who gets involved with her partner, then suspects him of murder in a case they are trying together.[8]
Death
On November 3, 1993, Duncan Gibbins narrowly escaped a wildfire that was roaring through all of Southern California and was engulfing the home he was renting in flames. Gibbins decided to go back in to rescue a cat that he saw in the burning building. While trying to rescue the cat, he received severe burns and died later at Sherman Oaks Hospital and Health Center's burn unit as a result. Days later, the cat was found unharmed save for a few minor burns.[9]
Music videos
- 1987 - Someone to Love Me for Me - Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, featuring Full Force
- 1987 - The Hands of Time - Gregg Rolie
- 1987 - It Doesn't Have to Be This Way - the Blow Monkeys
- 1986 - Don't Leave Me This Way - the Communards
- 1985 - Smuggler's Blues - Glenn Frey
- 1985 - Walking on the Chinese Wall - Philip Bailey
- 1984 - Careless Whisper - George Michael
- 1984 - Robert De Niro's Waiting... - Bananarama
- 1984 - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go [version 2: live] - Wham!
- 1984 - Sexy Girl - Glenn Frey
- 1983 - That Was Then but This Is Now - ABC
- 1983 - Club Tropicana - Wham!
- 1983 - Tell Me Why - Musical Youth
- 1983 - Love to Stay - Altered Images
- 1983 - Who's That Girl? - Eurythmics
- 1983 - Just Got Lucky - JoBoxers
Feature films
- Fire with Fire (1986)
- Third Degree Burns (1989), screenwriter
- Eve of Destruction (1991)
- A Case for Murder
References
- ^ Duncan Gibbins - Rotten Tomatoes Celebrity Profile
- ^ Goodman, Walter. "Duncan Gibbins". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/person/91438/Duncan-Gibbins.
- ^ Fire with Fire (1986) - Plot summary
- ^ Duncan Gibbins, director (Fire With Fire), dies in California fire at 41 November 3 in History
- ^ allmovie ((( Duncan Gibbins > Overview )))
- ^ Fire with Fire at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dllp=avg&sql=1:16160
- ^ A Case for Murder at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "Duncan Gibbins; Film Maker, 41". New York Times. November 5, 1993. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6DC143AF936A35752C1A965958260.
- ^ mvdbase.com - Duncan Gibbins Videography
- ^ allmovie ((( Duncan Gibbins > Filmography )))
External links
Categories:- 1952 births
- 1993 deaths
- English film directors
- English music video directors
- English screenwriters
- People from Cornwall
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