Gavin Hood Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: South African filmmaker Gavin Hood is most well known as the director of the award-winning urban drama Tsotsi, however, few know that he learned the ropes and paid his dues by appearing in B-movies like Curse 3: Blood Sacrifice and American Kickboxer. He also studied law at the University of...Read More

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Crew: Director

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Lynn Collins

Synopsis: The gruff, steel-clawed Marvel superhero Wolverine strikes out on his own in this X-Men spin-off starring series regular Hugh Jackman. The film is set up as an origin tale for the character, and will find him sharing the screen with Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), Gambit (Taylor Kitsch), John Wraith (will.i.am Read More

5/1/09
Rendition

Crew: Director

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Alan Arkin, Peter Sarsgaard, Omar Metwally

Synopsis: The director of the Academy Award-winning 2006 crime drama Tsotsi returns to the helm with this tale of a Middle East CIA operative who begins to have doubts about his latest assignment after witnessing the interrogation of a suspected suicide bomber by secret police. When Egyptian-born chemical Read More

10/19/07
Tsotsi

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Presley Chweneyagae, Terry Pheto, Kenneth Nkosi, Mothusi Magano, Zenzo Ngqobe

Synopsis: An amoral teenager develops an unexpected paternal side in this powerful drama from South Africa. Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae) is the street name used by a young Johannesburg delinquent who has taken to a life of crime in order to support himself. Tsotsi comes from a blighted upbringing -- his Read More

2/24/06
King Solomon's Mines

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Alison Doody, Gavin Hood, Roy Marsden, Ian Roberts

Synopsis: This four-hour cable miniseries adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's classic adventure novel King Solomon's Mines dispenses with much of the original story in favor of a standard Indiana Jones-esque melodrama, complete with claim-jumping villains, snarling Russian soldiers, an ancient and deadly Read More

2004
In Desert and Wilderness

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Adam Fidusiewicz, Karolina Sawka

Synopsis: Adventure awaits two siblings as they make their way across the African desert in this sumptuous family film from the director of Kickboxer 5. While traveling with their parents as they prepare work on the Suez Canal, the two youngsters are kidnapped and taken into the barren landscape of the Read More

2001
A Reasonable Man

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Gavin Hood, Nigel Hawthorne, Janine Eser, Vusi Kunene, Ken Gampu

Synopsis: In this drama, a man dealing with the ghosts of his past defends a child whose cultural dictates differ with the law. Sean Raine (Gavin Hood) was born and raised in South Africa, but during his time as a soldier in that nation's army, he killed a young black man by mistake while fighting in Angola Read More

1999
Rhodes

Actors: Russell Baker, Martin Shaw, Frances Barber, Joe Shaw, Patrick Shai

Synopsis: Filmed in South Africa, this lengthy biographical drama details events in the life of 19th-century British imperialist Cecil Rhodes (Martin Shaw) through an extensive series of overlapping flashbacks. The BBC original ran for eight hours, but for telecasting in the United States, the BBC edited Read More

1998
Kickboxer 5

Synopsis: Living up to its tagline, "Payback can be deadly," this installment in the popular-on-video Kickboxer series follows the travails of a displaced fighter out to avenge his friend's death. Stepping in for former hero Sasha Mitchell -- who in turn stepped in for original Kickboxer Jean-Claude Van Damme Read More

1994
American Kickboxer

Actors: John Barrett, Keith Vitali, Brad Morris, Terry Norton, Ted Le Platt

Synopsis: After spending his time in jail for manslaughter, a formal world-champion kick boxer B.J. Quinn (John Barrett) is released after doing time and sets out to regain his former stature as a top-notch fighter. Unfortunately he begins his comeback at a drunken party (he's drunk) and he tangles with the Read More

1991
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice

Synopsis: While in Africa, a pregnant American (Jenilee Harrison) is cursed by a village witch doctor (Dumi Shongwe) after interrupting a tribal ceremony. Soon after, she is visited by a sea-demon who terrorizes her friends. The film, which shares little with the others in the series, was originally titled Read More

1990