Michael Tommy Hodges Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Mike Hodges (born 29 July 1932) is an English screenwriter, film director, playwright and novelist. His films as writer/director include Get Carter, Pulp, The Terminal Man and Black Rainbow; as director, his films include Flash Gordon, Croupier and I'll Sleep When I'm Dead.His theatre plays include Soft Shoe Shuffle (1985) and Shooting Stars and Other Heavenly Pursuits (2000), which was adapted for BBC radio. Other radio plays include King Trash (2004). His first novel, Watching The Wheels Come Off, was published in 2010.
I don't really have anything "to say", I'd just like to eke out the comic side of the human predicament.
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We don't seem to realize that our lives are already gripped in the steely, dehumanizing equivalent of a totalitarian state. At the moment, we see it as benign, but it won't always be like that.
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America puzzled me from the moment I went there in the mid-1960s. Its motivation was totally different from that in the UK of those days (but sadly no longer). But what was it? I began to realize it was a culture based heavily on addiction. The object of every manufacturer was to make people become addicted to something, anything.
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I really want to take the audience by the hand and take them somewhere they haven't been before.
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[on Flash Gordon (1980)] The only improvised $27-million movie ever made.
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A film is alive. You shouldn't stifle it. You should never over art-direct, over conceive, over research, or walk in with an exact idea of how things should be done.
Received an honorary degree from the University of the West of England in Bristol, his home city, on 7th November 2005.
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He was the original director of Damien: Omen II (1978). During three weeks of shooting, Hodges left the film as a result of creative differences. His replacement was Don Taylor. Hodges directed the military scenes and the factory scenes.
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Murder by Numbers
2004
Documentary
Queen: Greatest Video Hits 2
2003
Video documentary segment "Body Language"
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
2003
Croupier
1998
The Healer
1994
TV Movie
Dandelion Dead
1994
TV Mini-Series 4 episodes
Black Rainbow
1989
Florida Straits
1987
TV Movie
A Prayer for the Dying
1987
The Hitchhiker
1985
TV Series 1 episode
Morons from Outer Space
1985
Red Hot Rock
1984
Video segment "Body Language"
Squaring the Circle
1984
TV Movie
Missing Pieces
1983
TV Movie
Flash Gordon
1980
Damien: Omen II
1978
uncredited
The Terminal Man
1974
Pulp
1972
The Frighteners
1972
TV Series 1 episode
Get Carter
1971
ITV Playhouse
1969-1970
TV Series 2 episodes
The Tyrant King
1968
TV Series 6 episodes
Tempo
1966
TV Series 1 episode
World in Action
1964
TV Series documentary 3 episodes
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Terminal Man
1974
producer
ITV Playhouse
1969-1970
TV Series producer - 2 episodes
The Tyrant King
1968
TV Series producer - 6 episodes
World in Action
1963-1967
TV Series documentary producer - 7 episodes
Tempo
1965-1967
TV Series producer - 12 episodes
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Lifeforce Experiment
1994
TV Movie
Black Rainbow
1989
writer
Missing Pieces
1983
TV Movie
Damien: Omen II
1978
screenplay - as Michael Hodges
The Terminal Man
1974
Pulp
1972
written by
The Frighteners
1972
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Get Carter
1971
screenplay
ITV Playhouse
TV Series writer - 1 episode, 1970 written by - 1 episode, 1969
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
World in Action
1964-1965
TV Series documentary production team - 2 episodes
Seven Up!
1964
TV Short documentary production team
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
D.O.D.
2008
Short very special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Life After Flash
2017
Documentary filming
Himself
The British Film Industry: Elitist, Deluded or Dormant?
2014
Documentary
Himself
Success in Film Making
2012
Documentary short
Himself
O Lucky Malcolm!
2006
Documentary
Himself
The Autograph Hunters
2005
Short
Himself
Mike Hodges: Uncompromising Poet of the Prescient
2005
Documentary
Himself
Mike Hodges: Beyond Get Carter
2004
Himself
Omnibus
2002
TV Series documentary
Himself
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
1999
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2013
Golden Unicorn for Career Achievement
Amiens International Film Festival
2012
Special Career Award
Fantasporto
Career Award
Also in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Get Carter (1971)
$800,000
