Hampton Fancher
| Hampton Fancher | |
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| Born | July 18, 1938 East Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, producer, actor, director |
Hampton Fancher (born July 18, 1938) is a former actor who became a producer and screenwriter in the late 1970s. Fancher was born to a Mexican mother and an American father in East Los Angeles, California, US.[1] At 15, he ran away to Spain to become a flamenco dancer and renamed himself Mario Montejo. He was married briefly to Sue Lyon of Lolita fame. [2] Fancher lives in New York City.
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[edit] Career
Fancher is best known for writing the first screenplay of the science fiction film Blade Runner. After convincing Philip K. Dick to option his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Fancher wrote a screenplay and got the support of producer Michael Deeley. This made Fancher the executive producer which led to disagreements with the director Ridley Scott and David Peoples being brought in to continue reworking the script.[3]
Fancher wrote two films afterward, The Mighty Quinn (1989) starring Denzel Washington and The Minus Man (1999), which he also directed, starring Owen Wilson.[4]
In the early 80's, Fancher wrote and lived outside of Los Angeles in Topanga Canyon.
Fancher appeared in a cameo role in the independent film Tonight at Noon by Michael Almereyda, which stars Rutger Hauer.
Fancher provided the voiceover narration for the DVD extras in The Criterion Collection edition of famous film noir The Killers, which included the 1946, 1956 and 1964 versions.
[edit] Filmography
- Blade Runner (with David Webb Peoples) (1982)
- The Mighty Quinn (1989)
- The Minus Man (1999) (Director/Writer)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Hampton Fancher at the Internet Movie Database
- Salon.com – The flamenco man: Hampton Fancher
- "Interview with Hampton Fancher". http://www.creativescreenwriting.com/spw/hfancher.cfm.
- "Hampton as guest star on Adam 12". http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.kentmccord.com/images/archives/adam12/guests/A-12-M%26K,-Hampton-Fancher.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.kentmccord.com/archives/adam12/guests.htm&h=480&w=606&sz=58&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=hMpkYmZ2wfZEKM:&tbnh=108&tbnw=136&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhampton%2Bfancher%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN.
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