
Ridley Scott
1 FOLLOWER • 82 CREDITS • NOV 30, 1937 • 87
Biography
Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937) is an English filmmaker. He was raised in an Army family, meaning that for most of his early life, his father — an officer in the Royal Engineers — was absent. Ridley's older brother, Frank, joined the Merchant Navy when he was still young and the pair had little contact. During this time the family moved around, living in (among other areas) Cumbria, Wales and Germany. He has a younger brother, Tony, also a film director. After the Second World War, the Scott family moved back to their native north-east England, eventually settling in Teesside (whose industrial landscape would later inspire similar scenes in Blade Runner). He enjoyed watching films, and his favourites include Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane and Seven Samurai. Scott studied in Teesside from 1954 to 1958, at Grangefield Grammar School and later in West Hartlepool College of Art, graduating with a Diploma in Design. He progressed to an M.A. in graphic design at the Royal College of Art from 1960 to 1962.
At the RCA he contributed to the college magazine, ARK and helped to establish its film department. For his final show, he made a black and white short film, Boy and Bicycle, starring his younger brother, Tony Scott, and his father. The film's main visual elements would become features of Scott's later work; it was issued on the 'Extras' section of The Duellists DVD. After graduation in 1963, he secured a job as a trainee set designer with the BBC, leading to work on the popular television police series Z-Cars and the science fiction series Out of the Unknown. Scott was an admirer of Stanley Kubrick early in his development as a director. For his entry to the BBC traineeship, Scott remade Paths of Glory as a short film.
He was assigned to design the second Doctor Who serial, The Daleks, which would have entailed realising the famous alien creatures. However, shortly before Scott was due to start work, a schedule conflict meant that he was replaced on the serial by Raymond Cusick.
At the BBC, Scott was placed into a director training programme and, before he left the corporation, had directed episodes of Z-Cars, its spin-off, Softly, Softly, and adventure series Adam Adamant Lives!
In 1968, Ridley and Tony Scott founded Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), a film and commercial production company.Five members of the Scott family are directors, all working for RSA. Brother Tony has been a successful film director for more than two decades; sons, Jake and Luke are both acclaimed commercials directors as is his daughter, Jordan Scott. Jake and Jordan both work from Los Angeles and Luke is based in London.
In 1995, Shepperton Studios was purchased by a consortium headed by Ridley and Tony Scott, which extensively renovated the studios while also expanding and improving its grounds.
Known For
Production Credits

Great Expectations

A Haunting in Venice

Our Friend

Halo: Nightfall

Napoleon

Alien: Earth

Robin Hood

Welcome to the Punch

Echo Valley

The A-Team

Before I Go to Sleep

Death on the Nile

Z-Cars

The Good Wife

The Last Vermeer

The Grey

Body of Lies

Legend

Gladiator III

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Choose or Die

Alien

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Blade Runner

Into the Storm

Equals

Strange Angel

The Man in the High Castle

Stoker

House of Gucci

American Gangster

The Duellists

Gladiator

Black Hawk Down

All the Money in the World

Child 44

Raised by Wolves

Taboo

The Last Duel

1492: Conquest of Paradise

Kaleidoscope

Get Santa

The Last Debate

Thelma & Louise

Merlin

Dope Thief

The Martian

AFP: American Fighter Pilot

Gladiator II

Earthquake Bird

G.I. Jane

Black Rain

Prime Target

Blade Runner 2099

Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds

The Pillars of the Earth

Kingdom of Heaven

The Passage

Klondike

Still Missing Morgan

Prometheus

The Terror

Monkey Trouble

Hannibal

FX's A Christmas Carol

Jean-Claude Van Johnson

Cracks

Blade Runner 2049

Alien: Covenant

Boston Strangler

Britain in a Day

Alien: Romulus

World Without End

Out of the Furnace

Murder on the Orient Express

Pompeii: A Day of Fire

The Good Fight
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