Mike Figgis Biography (1948?-)

Full name Michael Figgis; born February 28, 1948 (some sources cite 1949), inCarlisle, Cumbria, England (some sources cite Nairobi, Kenya); married, wife's name Bienchen (marriage ended); children: Louis Arlen, Louis. Addresses: Agent: International Creative Management, 8942 Wilshire Blvd., BeverlyHills, CA 90211-1934.

Gender: Male
Occupation: Director, producer, writer, composer, actor
Birth Details: February 28, 1948?; Carlisle

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Director
Stormy Monday, Atlantic, 1988
Internal Affairs, American Tobis, 1990
Liebestraum, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Pathe, 1991
Mr. Jones, TriStar, 1992
The Browning Version, Paramount, 1994
Leaving Las Vegas, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1995
(And producer) One Night Stand, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1997
Flamenco Women (documentary), 1997
Just Dancing Around (documentary), 1999
(And producer) Miss Julie, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1999
(And producer) The Loss of Sexual Innocence, Sony Pictures Classics, 1999
(And producer and cinematographer) Timecode, Screen Gems, 2000
(And producer) Hotel, Moonstone Entertainment, 2001
The Battle of Orgreave (documentary), Artangel Media/FilmFour, 2001
(And cinematographer) "About Time 2," Ten Minutes Older: The Cello, Road Sales, 2002
(And producer) Cold Creek Manor (also known as La maison au fond de la baie), Buena Vista, 2003
(And executive producer, cinematographer, and editor) Co/Ma (documentary), Red Mullet/Slovenian Film Fund/Swipe Films, 2004
Going Down, 2005
Also director of the short film Redheugh.
Film Work
Other
Featured musician, Leaving Las Vegas, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1995
Executive producer, Foxfire, Universal, 1996
Executive producer, Agua dulce (short film), Tribesmen Pictures, 2001
Film Appearances
Nicholas Hollander, Internal Affairs, American Tobis, 1990
First mobster, Leaving Las Vegas, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1995
Take a Number, 1996
Hotel clerk, One Night Stand, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1997
Himself, The Fig Rig (documentary short film), Muse Film, 2002
The Making of "Invasion of the Freedom Snatchers," Behind the Scenes Productions, 2004
Himself, Film Trix 2004 (documentary short film), 2004

Himself, There Is No Direction (documentary), Temps Noir, 2005
Television Director
Movies
(And producer) The House, Channel 4 (England), 1984
"Mara," Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules (also knownas The Art of Seduction and Women & Men 2), HBO, 1991
Episodic
Director of "Cold Cuts," an episode of The Sopranos, HBO.
Television Work
Miniseries
Producer and director, "Red, White, and Blues," The Blues, PBS, 2003
Television Appearances
Specials
The 68th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 1996
Interviewee, The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money, Bravo, 1999
Hollywood Salutes Nicolas Cage: An American Cinematheque Tribute,TNT, 2002
Interviewee, "Richard Gene," Biography, Arts and Entertainment, 2004
Episodic
Appeared in an episode of Independent View, PBS.
Stage Work
Director of the performance pieces Animals of the City and SlowFade.
RECORDINGS
Videos
Rules of the Genre, Buena Vista Home Video, 2004
WRITINGS
Screenplays
(And composer) Stormy Monday, Atlantic, 1988
(And composer) Liebestraum, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Pathe, 1991, published by Faber & Faber, 1992
(And composer) Leaving Las Vegas, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1995, published by Faber & Faber, 1996
(And composer) One Night Stand, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1997, published by Faber & Faber, 1998
(And composer) The Loss of Sexual Innocence, Sony Pictures Classics, 1999
(And composer) Timecode (also based on story by Figgis), Screen Gems, 2000
(And composer) Hotel (also based on story by Figgis), Moonstone Entertainment, 2001
The Battle of Orgreave (documentary), Artangel Media/FilmFour, 2001
"About Time 2," Ten Minutes Older: The Cello, Road Sales, 2002
Going Down, 2005
Also writer for the short film Redheugh.
Film Composer
Internal Affairs, American Tobis, 1990
Miss Julie, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1999
Cold Creek Manor (also known as La maison au fond de la baie), Buena Vista, 2003
Television Movies
Writer and Composer
The House (based on his stage piece Slow Fade), Channel 4 (England), 1984
"Mara," Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules (also knownas The Art of Seduction and Women & Men 2), HBO, 1991
Stage
Writer of the performance pieces Animals of the City and Slow Fade.
Books
(Editor, with John Boorman and Walter Donohue, and contributor) Projections 10: Hollywood Film-Makers on Film-Making, Faber & Faber, 2000
Mike Figgis: Collected Screenplays, Volume 1: Stormy Monday, Liebestraum, Leaving Las Vegas, Faber & Faber, 2002
In the Dark, Booth-Clibborn, 2003

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

DGA, July, 2002, pp. 47-48
People Weekly, December 1, 1997, p. 31
Total Film, January, 1998, pp. 33-34
Urban Cinefile, September 13, 2000

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