Guy Ritchie

Known for DirectingBorn 1968-09-10 (age 57)Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. His work includes British gangster films and the Sherlock Holmes films starring Robert Downey Jr. Ritchie left school at the age of 15. He worked in entry-level jobs in the film industry before directing television commercials. In 1995, he directed a short film, The Hard Case, followed by the crime comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels(1998), his feature-length directorial debut. He gained recognition with his second film, Snatch (2000), which was found to be critical and commercially successful. Following Snatch, Ritchie directed Swept Away (2002), a critically panned box-office bomb starring Madonna, to whom Ritchie was married between 2000 and 2008. He went on to direct Revolver (2005) and RocknRolla (2008), which were less successful and received mixed reviews. In 2009 and 2011, he directed the box-office hits Sherlock Holmes and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. The former was nominated for Academy Awards in Best Original Score and Best Art Direction. His other directed films include The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), based on the 1960s television series King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), and Aladdin (2019), Disney's live-action adaptation of their 1992 animated film which grossed over $1 billion worldwide, becoming one of the highest-grossing films in 2019 and the highest-grossing film of Ritchie's career. In 2019, he returned to crime comedy with The Gentlemen (2019), which was mainly well-received and a commercial success. He subsequently reteamed with Jason Statham on the action films Wrath of Man (2021) and Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023). His second film of 2023, The Covenant, received generally positive reviews. Description above from the Wikipedia article Guy Ritchie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Victoria's Secrets

MobLand

Young Sherlock

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

The Gentlemen

Guy Ritchie's The Covenant

The Gentlemen

Snatch

Wrath of Man

The Hire

Top Gear

Sherlock Holmes

Aladdin

The Graham Norton Show

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Beats by Dre: Made Defiant - The Mixtape

Sherlock Holmes: Reinvented

RocknRolla

The Diamond Heist

Star

Snatch

In the Grey

The Guv'nor

The Hard Case

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre

I'm Going to Tell You a Secret

The Men in Blazers Show

Fountain of Youth

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Perfect Chemistry

Making 'Snatch'

Revolver

Mean Machine

Lock, Stock...

Celebrities Uncensored

Swept Away

Live from Studio Five

Wife & Dog

Un Rendez-vous

Swept Away Movie Special

Gracie

Viva la Madness