Michael Winner

Michael Winner
Winner in 2010
Born	Robert Michael Winner (1935-10-30)30 October 1935 Hampstead, London, England
Died	21 January 2013(2013-01-21) (aged 77) Woodland House, Kensington, London, England
Resting place	Willesden Jewish Cemetery
Other names	Arnold Crust
Alma mater	Downing College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)	Film director and producer, screenwriter, film editor, food writer, media personality
Years active	1955–2013
Spouse	Geraldine Lynton-Edwards ​ ​ (m. 2011)​

Robert Michael Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) was a British filmmaker, writer, and media personality. He is known for directing numerous action, thriller, and black comedy films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, including several collaborations with actors Oliver Reed and Charles Bronson.^[1][2]

Winner's best-known works include Death Wish (1974) and its first two sequels, the World War II comedy Hannibal Brooks (1969), the hitman thriller The Mechanic (1972), the supernatural horror film The Sentinel (1977), the neo-noir The Big Sleep (1978), the satirical comedy Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976), and the Revisionist Westerns Lawman (1971) and Chato's Land (1972).

Winner was known as a media personality in the United Kingdom, appearing regularly on television talk programmes and publishing a restaurant review column for The Sunday Times. He was also a founder of the Police Memorial Trust.