This photograph is part of a large photographic collection that has come directly from The Hollywood Reporter George Christy. The entire collection was acquired in California before being brought to the UK. Most photographs in the collection are rare candid shots from celebrity events. A few are publicity shots. We have done our best to identify as many celebrities as possible, and to the best of our abilities.
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Walter Hill (Director) - Walter Hill (born January 10, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is widely known for his action films and revival of the Western genre. He has directed such films as The Warriors , Hard Times , The Driver , Southern Comfort , 48 Hrs. and its sequel Another 48 Hrs. , Red Heat , Last Man Standing , Undisputed , and Bullet to the Head , as well as writing the Steve McQueen crime drama The Getaway . He has also directed several episodes of television series such as Tales from the Crypt and Deadwood and produced the Alien films. Hill said in an interview that every film I've done has been a Western , and elaborated in another that the Western is ultimately a stripped down moral universe that is, whatever the dramatic problems are, beyond the normal avenues of social control and social alleviation of the problem, and I like to do that even within contemporary stories .
Joel Silver (Film Producer) - Joel Silver (born July 14, 1952) is an American film producer, most well known for action films including the Lethal Weapon series, The Matrix trilogy, the first two Die Hard movies, and Predator . He is the owner of Silver Pictures and co-founder of Dark Castle Entertainment. He has been a rival to Michael Eisner, former CEO of The Walt Disney Company, since their days at Paramount Pictures.
Chris Albrecht (Media Executive) - Chris Albrecht (born July 24, 1952) is an American media executive. Albrecht is Chief Executive Officer and President of Starz. He is responsible for overseeing Starz Networks, Starz Distribution, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Starz Worldwide Distribution, Starz Digital Media and Starz Animation. As of January 2013, Starz became an independent publicly traded company on the NASDAQ. Albrecht is the former Chairman and CEO of HBO. He spent 22 years at HBO and was credited for ushering in the Golden Age of television with hit series such as The Sopranos , Sex and the City , Deadwood , Six Feet Under , Entourage , Band of Brothers and The Wire . Albrecht founded Foresee Entertainment, an independent content creation, development and distribution company, in 2008. Albrecht was the president of IMG Global Media and IMG Entertainment, subsidiaries of the IMG production company, from September 2007 until August 2008. Albrecht was also a Special Limited Partner in Forstmann Little & Company.
Reehand Donner (Director and Producer) - Richard Donner (born Richard Donald Schwartzberg ; April 24, 1930) is an American director and producer of film and television. After directing the horror film The Omen (1976), Donner became famous for directing the first modern superhero film, Superman (1978), starring Christopher Reeve. Donner later went on to direct such films as The Goonies (1985) and Scrooged (1988), while reinvigorating the buddy film genre with Lethal Weapon (1987) and its sequels. He and his wife, producer Lauren Shuler Donner, own the production company The Donner's Company, which is most well known for producing the X-Men film series. In 2000, he received the President's Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. Film historian Michael Barson writes that Donner is one of Hollywood's most reliable makers of action blockbusters .
