Martin Campbell Biography
Summary
"Martin Campbell" (born October 241944, Hastings) is a New Zealand film and television director. He directed the 1995 film "GoldenEye", in which Pierce Brosnan made his first appearance as James Bond, and then Daniel Craig as a new Bond in for 2006's "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).
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