Editing Michael Winner (section)

{{short description|English filmmaker, food writer (1935–2013)}}
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{{Use British English|date=March 2012}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Michael Winner
| image              = File:Michael Winner, 2010 (cropped).jpg
| caption            = Winner in 2010
| other_names        = Arnold Crust
| birth_name         = Michael Robert Winner
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1935|10|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [[Hampstead]], London, England
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|2013|1|21|1935|10|30|df=yes}}
| death_place        = [[Woodland House]], [[Kensington]], London, England
| resting_place      = [[Willesden Jewish Cemetery]]
| alma_mater         = [[Downing College, Cambridge]]
| years_active       = 1955–2013
| spouse             = {{marriage|Geraldine Lynton-Edwards<br>|2011}}
| occupation         = [[Film director]] and [[film producer|producer]], [[screenwriter]], [[film editor]], [[food writer]], [[media personality]]
}}
'''Michael Robert Winner''' (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) was an English [[filmmaker]], writer, and media personality. He is known for directing numerous [[Action film|action]], [[Thriller films|thriller]], and [[black comedy]] films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, including several collaborations with actors [[Oliver Reed]] and [[Charles Bronson]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bradshaw|first=Peter|date=2013-01-21|title=Michael Winner was over-indulged, but he was a pioneer of sorts|url=http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/jan/21/michael-winner-pioneer-of-sorts|access-date=2018-05-21|website=[[The Guardian]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Looking Back At The DEATH WISH Franchise {{!}} Film Inquiry|url=http://www.filminquiry.com/death-wish-franchise/|access-date=2018-05-21|website=www.filminquiry.com|date=17 February 2017|language=en-US}}</ref>

Winner's best-known works include [[Death Wish (1974 film)|''Death Wish'']] (1974) and its first two sequels ''[[Death Wish II]]'' (1982) and ''[[Death Wish 3]]'' (1985), the World War II comedy ''[[Hannibal Brooks]]'' (1969), the hitman thriller ''[[The Mechanic (1972 film)|The Mechanic]]'' (1972), the supernatural horror film ''[[The Sentinel (1977 film)|The Sentinel]]'' (1977), the neo-noir ''[[The Big Sleep (1978 film)|The Big Sleep]]'' (1978), the satirical comedy ''[[Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood]]'' (1976), and the [[Revisionist Western]]s ''[[Lawman (film)|Lawman]]'' (1971) and ''[[Chato's Land]]'' (1972).

Winner was known as a media personality in the United Kingdom, appearing regularly on television talk programmes and publishing a restaurant review column for ''[[The Sunday Times]]''. He was also a founder of the [[Police Memorial Trust]].