Biography
Roger Spottiswoode is a Canadian-British film director, editor and writer. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he entered the British film industry in the 1960s as a trainee editor, apprenticing under John Bloom, and later edited several films for Sam Peckinpah in the early 1970s.
He began directing in the early 1980s. His credits include Terror Train (1980), Under Fire (1983), Shoot to Kill (1988), Turner & Hooch (1989), Air America (1990) and The 6th Day (2000). He was part of the writing team for 48 Hrs. (1982) and directed the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).
