
Ridley Scott
1 FOLLOWER • 81 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

All the Money in the World

A Haunting in Venice

Alien: Covenant

Welcome to the Punch

Gladiator II

Kaleidoscope

Child 44

The Pillars of the Earth

Boston Strangler

Blade Runner 2099

Monkey Trouble

Out of the Furnace

Death on the Nile

Gladiator

Into the Storm

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Echo Valley

Robin Hood

Hannibal

Body of Lies

Great Expectations

Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds

Get Santa

FX's A Christmas Carol

Legend

G.I. Jane

The Last Duel

Halo: Nightfall

Earthquake Bird

The Good Fight

The Martian

Murder on the Orient Express

Klondike

Cracks

AFP: American Fighter Pilot

Alien: Romulus

House of Gucci

Napoleon

1492: Conquest of Paradise

Raised by Wolves

World Without End

Britain in a Day

Alien: Earth

Prometheus

Dope Thief

Our Friend

The Grey

Blade Runner

The Man in the High Castle

Strange Angel

The Last Debate

Black Hawk Down

Stoker

The Terror

Blade Runner 2049

Prime Target

Kingdom of Heaven

The Duellists

Equals

Jean-Claude Van Johnson

Merlin

Still Missing Morgan

The A-Team

The Last Vermeer

Taboo

American Gangster

Choose or Die

Gladiator III

Alien

Z-Cars

Before I Go to Sleep

The Good Wife

Pompeii: A Day of Fire

Thelma & Louise

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Black Rain
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