Martin Campbell
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Martin Campbell (born October 241940, Hastings) is a New Zealand film and television director. He is best known for ushering in Pierce Brosnan in the first of four appearances as James Bond in the 1995 film GoldenEye. In 2006 Campbell also directed the first Bond film starring Daniel Craig as Bond in the official film adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale. He also directed the two recent Zorro films, The Mask of Zorro (1998) and The Legend of Zorro (2005), both starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
On television, his best known work is the 1985 BBC Television drama serial Edge of Darkness, for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Director in 1986. Prior to that, Campbell was known for some of the more action-oriented episodes from the TV series The Professionals (1977 – 1983).
Selected filmography
- Casino Royale (2006)
- The Legend of Zorro (2005)
- Beyond Borders (2003)
- Vertical Limit (2000)
- The Mask of Zorro (1998)
- GoldenEye (1995).
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