Nicolas Roeg

Q: Has Nicolas Roeg won any major awards?

While Nicolas Roeg did not win an Academy Award, he received numerous accolades, including BAFTA nominations and the prestigious British Independent Film Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Q: What was Nicolas Roeg's first film as a director?

Nicolas Roeg's directorial debut was 'Performance' in 1970, which he co-directed with Donald Cammell, marking the beginning of his influential career.

Q: What is Nicolas Roeg's directing style known for?

Roeg's directing style is characterized by unconventional narrative structures, striking visuals, and a focus on psychological themes, often blending surrealism with realism.

Q: What impact did Nicolas Roeg have on cinema?

Nicolas Roeg significantly impacted cinema by challenging traditional storytelling methods and influencing a generation of filmmakers with his innovative approach to film.

Q: What is Nicolas Roeg's estimated net worth?

Nicolas Roeg's estimated net worth is around $10 million, reflecting his successful career as a filmmaker and cinematographer.

Q: Did Nicolas Roeg work with any notable actors?

Yes, Nicolas Roeg collaborated with many notable actors, including David Bowie, Julie Christie, and Donald Sutherland, who contributed to his films' unique performances.

Q: What themes are commonly found in Nicolas Roeg's films?

Common themes in Roeg's films include existentialism, the nature of reality, and human relationships, often explored through a psychological lens and complex narratives.

Known for

The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022)

IMDb 7.3 / 10

2022 / Drama, Sci-Fi / 54mins

An extraterrestrial alien arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.

Name

Nicolas Roeg

Height

5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)

Born

15 August 1928, St. John's Wood, London, England

Spouses

Theresa Russell (1988–2018)

Children

3 (Nicolas, Lucien, and a daughter)

Parents

Sir Thomas Roeg and Mary Roeg

Estimated Net Worth

$10 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2015	Movie Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... The first major profile of the great British film director Nicolas Roeg, examining his very personal vision of cinema as...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2013	Movie David Bowie: Five Years Featuring a wealth of previously unseen archive, this film looks at how Bowie continually evolved: from Ziggy Stardust to the...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2011	Movie That's Insignificance A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Nicolas Roeg's 1985 film INSIGNIFICANCE featuring interviews with the cast.	Self	Not rated
2010	Movie Away We Stay	Restaurant Guest	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2010	Movie Heavy Rain A powerful short documentary inspired by the launch of the genre breaking PlayStation 3 title HEAVY RAIN.   Directed by the...	Himself	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2008	Movie The Making of Casino Royale, 1967 Interviews and overview of the making of the original 1967 James Bond film.	Self - Director of Photography Stunt Unit	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2005	Movie Michael Powell The first episode of a new arts documentary program from BBC Scotland was dedicated to Michael Powell in his centenary...	Unknown character	Not rated
2003	Movie 100 Greatest Sexy Moments Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments. Supplemented by new interviews with performers,...	Self	TMDB 3.5 / 10
2003	Movie Watching the Alien Documentary about The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2002	Movie Don't Look Now: Looking Back In this short making-of documentary, director Nicolas Roeg discusses the production history of the film and the unique qualities of...	Himself	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1998	Movie Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance Documentary profile of the Scottish painter, screenwriter and director Donald Cammell, who committed suicide in 1996.	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1996	Movie François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from the perspectives of those...	Self	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1993	TV Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors.	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1982	Movie Nothing As It Seems: The Films of Nicolas Roeg Documentary on Nicolas Roeg	Self	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2018	Movie Crowhurst Donald Crowhurst competes in an around the world boat race. His lack of experience and mental state soon lead to...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2014	Movie The Film That Buys the Cinema A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The...	Director Directing	Not rated
2012	Movie The Mapmaker A short UK drama following an ageing couple who return to the seaside where they were happy 50 years earlier....	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2011	Movie Zero Thriller-drama about eight losers who will have to deal with a new life in which apparently they are the only...	Producer Production	Not rated
2007	Movie Puffball Architect Liffey moves to the Irish countryside with her American fiancé, Richard, to refurbish a long-abandoned cottage. Their neighbours are...	Director Directing	TMDB 3.8 / 10
2000	Movie The Sound of Claudia Schiffer This collaboration between Roeg and Adrian Utley of Portishead was filmed as part of the BBC’s Sound On Film series	Director Directing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1999	Movie The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception Indy's work with the Belgian Army takes him to the front lines of Verdun in 1916, where officers' callous stupidity...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1999	Movie Full Body Massage Nina, an art dealer, has her weekly massage appointment and is surprised to find out her usual masseur, Douglas, has...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1996	TV Samson and Delilah Mara and Manoa are both upstanding and religious Israelites living under the harsh and unjust rule of the Philistines. One...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1996	Movie Two Deaths While a brutal revolution rampages just outside his mansion, pleasure-seeking doctor Daniel Pavenic hosts a genteel dinner party. When asked...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1995	Movie Hotel Paradise A bride-to-be wakes up one morning next to a man chained to the bed, but cannot remember what happened the...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.1 / 10
1994	Movie Heart of Darkness A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1992	Movie Cold Heaven While on holiday in Mexico, unhappily married Marie Davenport summons the courage to tell her unknowing husband, Alex, that she...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1990	Movie The Witches While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1990	Movie Without You I'm Nothing Sandra Bernhard stars in a studio version of her off-Broadway show, blending re-enactments of the original show's pieces with concept...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1989	Movie Sweet Bird of Youth Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1988	Movie Track 29 Years after a desperate teenage Linda gives up her baby for adoption, she finds herself face-to-face with Martin, a young...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1987	Movie Aria Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg....	Director Directing	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1987	Movie Aria Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg....	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1987	Movie Iceberg With its simple and iconic imagery this was public information film at its most sensational: expensive special effects and high-concept...	Director Directing	Not rated
1987	Movie Monolith John Hurt narrates this highly charged and doom-laden public information film from the 1987 AIDS awareness campaign. A cliff-face explodes...	Director Directing	Not rated
1986	Movie Castaway Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1985	Movie Insignificance Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room, and two of them discover more in common between them than...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1983	Movie Eureka After striking it rich on a large gold strike, a prospector retires to the quiet life on a Caribbean island...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1980	Movie Bad Timing Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1976	Movie The Man Who Fell to Earth Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet....	Director Directing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1973	Movie Don't Look Now While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1972	Movie Glastonbury Fayre In the Summer of 1971 the Glastonbury legend was born when the organisers decided to try and create a festival...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1972	Movie Glastonbury Fayre In the Summer of 1971 the Glastonbury legend was born when the organisers decided to try and create a festival...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1971	Movie Walkabout Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1971	Movie Walkabout Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1971	Movie Walkabout Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback...	Story Writing	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1970	Movie Performance. In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1970	Movie Performance. In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1968	Movie Petulia Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1967	Movie Far from the Madding Crowd Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1967	Movie Casino Royale Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up...	Additional Photography Camera	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1966	Movie A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1966	Movie Fahrenheit 451 In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1966	Movie Judith A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.	Additional Photography Camera	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1966	Movie Judith A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1965	Movie Every Day's a Holiday A group of teenagers take jobs at a holiday camp for the summer and enter a TV talent show	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1964	Movie The Masque of the Red Death A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1964	Movie Code 7, Victim 5 The first victim is the butler of South African millionaire Wexler, who hires hard-hitting private eye Steve Martin for protection....	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1964	Movie The System In a seaside village, a group of local young men mingle among the seasonal tourists in search of sexual conquests....	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1964	Movie Nothing But the Best Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss's daughter....	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1964	Movie The Caretaker Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1963	Movie Death Drums Along the River A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1963	Movie Dr. Crippen A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1963	Movie Just for Fun When the government cuts the quota of musical programs permitted on television, teenagers Mark and Cherry lead others youngsters in...	Lighting Camera Crew	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1963	Movie Just for Fun When the government cuts the quota of musical programs permitted on television, teenagers Mark and Cherry lead others youngsters in...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1962	Movie Lawrence of Arabia During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring,...	Second Unit Cinematographer Crew	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1962	Movie A Prize of Arms A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.	Story Writing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1962	Movie Band of Thieves A group of prisoners are encouraged to form a jazz band and vow to go straight when they are released...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1961	Movie Information Received Drama of an underworld double-cross as a man and woman set a death trap from which only one could possibly...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1961	Movie Doctor Blood's Coffin After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village,...	Camera Operator Camera	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1960	Movie The Sundowners In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida...	Camera Operator Camera	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1960	Movie The Trials of Oscar Wilde England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship...	Camera Operator Camera	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1960	Movie Jazz Boat An electrician boasts about being a cat burglar to impress his comrades, but his lie spins out of control when...	Camera Operator Camera	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1959	Movie Tarzan's Greatest Adventure The greatest adventure of jungle king Tarzan. Four British villains raid a settlement to obtain explosives for use in a...	Camera Operator Camera	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1959	Movie Innocent Meeting The daughter of a textile company owner falls in love with a young illustrator with a secret criminal past.	Camera Operator Camera	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1959	Movie The Bandit Of Zhobe British soldiers in India must contend with an outlaw bandit.	Camera Operator Camera	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1959	Movie The Child and the Killer Joe Marsh (Robert Arden) is a U.S. Army captain who goes on the run in Britain after committing murder. He...	Camera Operator Camera	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1959	Movie The Great Van Robbery Interpol detective Caesar Smith tracks robbers of the Royal Mint van. He travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris...	Camera Operator Camera	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1958	Movie Passport to Shame British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.	Camera Operator Camera	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1958	Movie Links of Justice Edgar is unhappily married to rich Clare. He plots with his mistress Stella to kill Clare, as she refuses to...	Camera Operator Camera	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1958	Movie A Woman Possessed English doctor John Winthrop (Francis Matthews) must protect his new wife, Ann (Kay Callard), from his wealthy and entirely too...	Camera Operator Camera	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1958	Movie The Man Inside A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft.	Camera Operator Camera	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1958	Movie Moment of Indiscretion Janet Miller (Lana Morris) is a married woman caught in awkward circumstances after police investigating a murder come up with...	Camera Operator Camera	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1956	Movie Bhowani Junction Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.	Assistant Camera Camera	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1956	Movie Pacific Destiny Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy...	Focus Puller Camera	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1954	Movie John Wesley Rescued from a burning house as a child, John Wesley believes the experience marked him for a higher purpose, a...	Assistant Camera Camera	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1953	Movie All Hallowe'en A woman falls in love with a ghost on All Hallows Eve.	Clapper Loader Camera	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1953	Movie Cosh Boy Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and...	Focus Puller Camera	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1952	Movie Circumstantial Evidence Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But...	Focus Puller Camera	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1951	Movie Calling Bulldog Drummond Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.	Assistant Camera Camera	TMDB 6.5 / 10

Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...

2015 / TMDB 5.0

David Bowie: Five Years

2013 / TMDB 7.5

That's Insignificance

2011

Away We Stay

2010 / TMDB 6.0

Heavy Rain

2010 / TMDB 5.5

Michael Powell

2005

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What themes are commonly found in Nicolas Roeg's films?