Simon West Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: He may be British by birth, but the films of director Simon West carry more Hollywood gloss than ten of his Los Angeles-born peers. With such big-budget major studio efforts as Con Air (1997) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), the fledgling director has indeed proven his keen ability to shoot...Read More

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Dali

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Antonio Banderas

Synopsis: Antonio Banderas is famed surrealist Salvador Dali in this biopic from director Simon West (Con Air) and screenwriter Jeremy Walters. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
Crazy Love

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: A Hawaiian surfer girl looking for a little adventure falls for a charismatic adventurer who is in reality a high-profile marijuana dealer currently being pursued by the FBI in a sun-soaked thriller directed by Simon West and based on actual events. Penned by screenwriters Geoffrey and Marcia Blake Read More

1/1/09
When a Stranger Calls

Crew: Director

Actors: Camilla Belle, Tommy Flanagan, Tessa Thompson, Brian Geraghty, Clark Gregg

Synopsis: A teenage girl becomes a demented serial killer's prey in this big-budget remake of the 1979 thriller that became a TV late-show favorite. When a Stranger Calls takes its title and basic premise from the original, which -- for its first 15 minutes or so -- featured Carol Kane as a frazzled Read More

2/3/06
Close to Home [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Jennifer Finnigan, Kimberly Elise, John Carroll Lynch, Christian Kane

Synopsis: Though created by Jim Leonard, the weekly, hour-long CBS crime-and-punishment series Close to Home bore the distinctive stamp of executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer, whose previous procedural dramas included Cold Case and the CSI franchise. Jennifer Finnigan starred as Annabeth Chase, a hotshot Read More

2005
Keen Eddie [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Mark Valley, Sienna Miller, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Alexei Sayle, Colin Salmon

Synopsis: Filmed on-location in London, the FOX cop series Keen Eddie starred Mark Valley as Eddie Arlette, a New York City police detective. Disgraced and nearly dismissed after a spectacularly botched drug bust, Eddie was ordered to transfer to London's Scotland Yard so that he might rebuild his career Read More

2003
Black Hawk Down

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Jason Isaacs, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana, William Fichtner, Ewen Bremner, Sam Shepard

Synopsis: A quickly forgotten chapter in United States military history is relived in this harrowing war drama from director Ridley Scott, based on a series of Philadelphia Inquirer articles and subsequent book by reporter Mark Bowden. On October 3rd, 1993, an elite team of more than 100 Delta Force Read More

12/28/01
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Noah Taylor, Iain Glen, Daniel Craig

Synopsis: A popular video game comes to the screen with this big-budget adventure starring Angelina Jolie as a buxom heroine recalling equal parts Indiana Jones and James Bond. Jolie is Lara Croft, a proper British aristocrat groomed at schools for the children of the elite. Croft leads a double life Read More

6/15/01
The General's Daughter

Crew: Director

Actors: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Leslie Stefanson, Daniel Von Bargen, Clarence Williams III, James Woods

Synopsis: A murder on a military base unearths a netherworld of corruption in this thriller based on the novel by Nelson DeMille. General Joe Campbell (James Cromwell) is a respected military leader with a flawless reputation; he's due to retire from the Army soon and is headed for a Vice-Presidential Read More

6/18/99
Con Air

Crew: Director

Actors: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames

Synopsis: Former war hero Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) is sentenced to eight years in prison when he accidentally kills a man in a barroom brawl while defending his pregnant wife. When his release comes through, he's eager to see the daughter he's never met. However, Poe's original flight is delayed, so he's Read More

1997
Swallows and Amazons

Actors: Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser, Brenda Bruce, Jack Woolgar, John Franklyn-Robbins

Synopsis: Swallows and Amazons is based on the popular children's book by Arthur Ransome. The film is set in Britain's Lake District in the 1920s. The "swallows" and "amazons" are the members of an Our Gang-ish group of kids. They enjoy a variety of outdoor adventures, linked together more by locale than Read More

1974