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My Take
Guy Ritchie is proof that film school is optional but a point of view is not. He left school at fifteen, learned the trade from the bottom, and turned that street-level education into a signature: overlapping chatter, kinetic cutting, criminals who talk like poets with bad intentions. I love that his shelf holds both an Edgar Award and a pair of Razzies — he swings hard enough to miss spectacularly, then steadies himself with crowd-pleasers like Sherlock Holmes and Aladdin. The judo background and business ventures fit the persona: a scrapper who treats filmmaking as a contact sport. British gangster cinema owes him a genre.
Overview
Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English filmmaker known primarily for British comedy gangster films and large-scale action-adventure films. Ritchie left school at the age of 15, and worked in entry-level jobs in the film industry before going on to direct television commercials.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Guy Ritchie
- Name (Japanese)
- ガイ・リッチー
- Reading
- がい・りっちー
- Born
- September 10, 1968 (age 57)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Monkey
- Origin
- Hatfield, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film director / film producer / screenwriter / entrepreneur / judoka
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2000 Edgar Awards
- 2002 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture
- 2002 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Snatch | — | |
| Notable work | RocknRolla | — | |
| Notable work | Sherlock Holmes | — | |
| Notable work | Aladdin | — |
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.