Paul HaggisFilmography

Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Show Creator, Teleplay By, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:: Paul Haggis absorbed the principles of playwriting and theater production at an early age. His parents owned the Gallery Theatre in London, Ontario, and it was there that he began to develop his skills. Haggis went on to study cinematography at Fanshawe College before moving to California in 1975...Read More

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The Next Three Days

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson

Synopsis: Russell Crowe teams up with Academy Award-winning writer/director Paul Haggis (Crash) and co-star Elizabeth Banks for this Lionsgate thriller concerning a man willing to break his wife out of prison in order to get her out of a murder conviction. Liam Neeson heads up the supporting cast, which Read More

1/1/10
Quantum of Solace

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: A devastating betrayal sends James Bond from Australia to Italy and South America on a mission of vengeance that pits the suave super-spy against a powerful businessman with diabolical intentions. Betrayed by Vesper, 007 (Daniel Craig) suppresses the urge to make his latest mission personal as he Read More

10/31/08
Crash [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Based on the Oscar award winning film of the same name, Crash follows the lives of a seemingly unconnected group of people living in Los Angeles. At first, none of the very different lives led on screen seem to overlap, from hotshot record producer Ben Cendars (Dennis Hopper) to hair-trigger cop Read More

2008
In the Valley of Elah

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Jason Patric, Susan Sarandon, James Franco

Synopsis: When a model soldier who recently returned to the U.S. from the front lines of Iraq goes AWOL, his veteran father enlists the aid of a dedicated police detective in seeking out his son's true fate in director/screenwriter Paul Haggis's follow up to the Oscar-winning 2004 indie-hit Crash. Mike Read More

9/14/07
The Black Donnellys [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter, Show Creator

Actors: Kirk Acevedo, Tom Guiry, Billy Lush, Keith Nobbs, Michael Stahl-David, Jonathan Tucker, Olivia Wilde

Synopsis: Something of an Irish variation on The Sopranos with a considerably younger cast, NBC's weekly, hour-long The Black Donnellys was reportedly inspired on the exploits of an actual family (also named Donnelly) who were involved in a notoriously bloody fued in the Ontario of the 1880s. The TV series Read More

2007
Letters from Iwo Jima

Crew: Executive Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shidou Nakamura

Synopsis: After bringing the story of the American soldiers who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima to the screen in his film Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood offers an equally thoughtful portrait of the Japanese forces who held the island for 36 days in this military drama. In 1945, World War II was in Read More

12/9/06
Casino Royale

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Giancarlo Giannini, Caterina Murino

Synopsis: Actor Daniel Craig assumes the role formerly occupied by such screen greats as Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and Timothy Dalton to set out on the character's very first 007 mission. James Bond has earned his "00" status by masterfully executing a pair of death-defying professional assassinations. Now Read More

11/17/06
Flags of Our Fathers

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood's adaptation of the non-fiction book Flags of Our Fathers concerns the lives of the men in the famous picture of soldiers raising the American flag over Iwo Jima during that historic WWII battle. Battle scenes are intercut with footage of three of the soldiers - played by Ryan Read More

10/20/06
The Last Kiss

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Casey Affleck, Rachel Bilson, Michael Weston

Synopsis: A successful 30-year-old (Zach Braff) with a the perfect girlfriend (Jacinda Barrett) and a lucrative outlook on life struggles with the increasing pressures of adulthood as he weighs the merits of settling down with the woman who loves him against risking it all to be with a comely co-ed (Rachel Bilson Read More

9/15/06
The Dialogue: Learning From the Masters - Paul Haggis

Actors: Paul Haggis

Synopsis: The Dialogue: Paul Haggis features Hollywood insider Mike De Luca interviewing the screenwriter responsible for Million Dollar Baby and Crash. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
Entourage: Crash and Burn

Synopsis: Vince, Eric and Ari try to keep the Aquaman sequel's schedule from making waves with Medellin's excitable director; Turtle mulls his future when Saigon's song becomes a hit; Ari expands his housekeeper's duties. ~ Joe Friedrich, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
Crash

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Shaun Toub, Brendan Fraser

Synopsis: Issues of race and gender cause a group of strangers in Los Angeles to physically and emotionally collide in this drama from director and screenwriter Paul Haggis. Graham (Don Cheadle) is a police detective whose brother is a street criminal, and it hurts him to know his mother cares more about Read More

5/6/05
Million Dollar Baby

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Mackie, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter

Synopsis: Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran boxing trainer who has devoted his life to the ring and has precious little to show for it; his daughter never answers his letters, and a fighter he's groomed into contender status has paid him back by signing with another manager, leaving Frankie high Read More

12/15/04
Due South: Bird in the Hand

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Lee Purcell

Synopsis: Assigned to protect a federal witness, Fraser (Paul Gross) learns to his chagrin that the man in question is Gerrard (Ken Pogue), who killed Fraser's father (Gordon Pinsent) back in Canada. With Gerrard at large in Chicago, Fraser is ordered to bring the fugitive back alive at all costs. As Fraser Read More

1995
Due South: Invitation to Romance

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Jane Krakowski, Nicholas Campbell, Beth Amos

Synopsis: Fraser (Paul Gross) finds himself in a comedy of errors that threatens to turn tragic at a moment's notice. Through no fault of his own, Fraser ends up in a compromising situation with bird-brained Katherine Burns (Jane Krakowski), the fiancee of hot-tempered Nigel Ellis (Nicholas Campbell). No Read More

1995
Due South: A Hawk and a Handsaw

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Tyrone Benskin, Shay Duffin

Synopsis: Fraser (Paul Gross) witnesses an apparent suicide attempt by a delusional man who is searching for someone who has been dead for five years. Further investigating the situation, Fraser comes to the conclusion that a local private mental institution is a hotbed of crime. Going undercover as a Read More

1995
Due South: Victoria's Secret, Part 1

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Daniel Kash, Tony Craig

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Fraser (Paul Gross) is unexpectedly reunited with Victoria Metcalf (Melina Kanakaredes), the only woman he has ever truly loved--even though he'd been forced to arrest her the last time they met. Now, Victoria claims that she is being pursued by her former Read More

1995
Due South: Vault

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash

Synopsis: When a computer glitch declares that Ray (David Marciano) is dead, he and Fraser (Paul Gross) head to their bank to correct the error and free up Ray's money. Once at the bank, the two lawmen recognize one of the cleaning crew as a crook of their acquaintance--and before long, our heroes are in Read More

1995
Due South: Victoria's Secret, Part 2

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Fraser's (Paul Gross) former lover Victoria (Melina Kanakeredes reveals her true colors when she kills her former partner Jolly (Denis Forest) and frames Fraser (Paul Gross) and Ray (David Marciano) on a charge of passing stolen money. But is it truly her Read More

1995
Due South: Free Willie

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash

Synopsis: Newly moved to Chicago to take on his duties as Deputy Liason Officer at the Canadian Consulate, RCMP constable Benton Fraser (Paul Gross) leaps right into his erstwhile partnership with Chi-town police detective Ray Vecchio (David Marciano) when the two of them appoint themselves protectors of Read More

1994
Due South: Pilot

Crew: Executive Producer, Teleplay By

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Wendel Meldrum, Chuck Shamata, Joe Ziegler

Synopsis: Accompanied by his trusty pet wolf Diefenbaker, RCMP constable Benton Fraser doggedly pursues the murderer of his Mountie father (whose death has been officially deemed an "accident") from the snowy environs of the Yukon to the urban sprawl of Chicago. Once in the Windy City, Fraser meets Read More

1994
Due South: Manhunt

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash, Tony Craig

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen guest stars as Sgt. Buck Frobisher, a legendary Canadian mountie who is idolized by our hero Benton Fraser (Paul Gross). Frobisher's daughter Julie (Cali Timmins) solicits Fraser's help when Buck disappears from view, one week shy of retirement. Resurfacing in Chicago, an Read More

1994
Due South: The Gift of the Wheelman

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash

Synopsis: Just before Christmas, Fraser (Paul Gross) and Ray (David Marciano) are put in charge of young Del Porter (Ryan Philippe), who claims to have witness a bank heist. In truth, Del is trying to shield his father William (James Purcell), the wheelman for a gang of bank robbers disguised as sidewalk Read More

1994
Due South: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Catherine Bruhier

Synopsis: In search of the scoundrel who murdered his mountie father, sweet-tempered, straight-arrow RCMP constable Benton Fraser (Paul Gross) shows up in the nail-tough 27th Police Precinct of Chicago as the tongue-in-cheek cop series Due South launches its first season. Teaming with sardonic, streetwise Read More

1994
Walker, Texas Ranger [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Sheree J. Wilson, Noble Willingham, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman

Synopsis: Karate-champion-turned-movie-star Chuck Norris was ideally cast as the title character in the contemporary Western series, Walker, Texas Ranger. Introduced as a two-hour TV movie on April 21, 1983, the weekly, hour-long CBS series starred Norris as Cordell Walker, who worked out of the Dallas Read More

1993
Red Hot

Crew: Director

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Balthazar Getty, Carla Gugino

Synopsis: In this drama set in the mid-1950s, Alexi (Balthazar Getty) is a typical teenager who loves rock & roll. Unfortunately, he lives in the U.S.S.R., where rock music is looked at as a degenerate fad of the decadent West. Luckily, Alexi's Uncle Dimitri (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is a music salesman who Read More

1993