Kurt Wimmer
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Kurt Wimmer | |
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Born | 1964 (age 59–60) |
Occupation(s) | film director, film producer, screenwriter |
Kurt Wimmer (born 1964) is an American screenwriter, film producer and film director.
Biography
He attended the University of South Florida and graduated with a BFA degree in Art History. He then moved to Los Angeles where he worked for 12 years as a screenwriter before making his 2002 film, Equilibrium.[1] In numerous interviews he cites Equilibrium as his directorial debut and first film, in which he also has a cameo role as a practitioner of the fictional martial art Gun Kata; however his actual directorial debut was the 1995 action film One Tough Bastard, starring Brian Bosworth and Bruce Payne.
Filmography
Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | |||
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Director | Producer | Writer | Actor | |||
1995 | One Tough Bastard | Yes | No | No | No | |
1998 | Sphere | No | No | Yes | No | Wrote adaptation from novel by Michael Crichton |
1999 | The Thomas Crown Affair | No | No | Yes | No | |
2002 | Equilibrium | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Cameo as rebel victim |
2003 | The Recruit | No | No | Yes | No | |
2006 | Ultraviolet | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Cameo as a hemophage |
2008 | Street Kings | No | No | Yes | No | |
2009 | Law Abiding Citizen | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
2010 | Salt | No | No | Yes | No | |
2012 | Total Recall | No | No | Yes | No | |
2015 | Point Break | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
TBD | Salt 2 | No | No | Yes | No |
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