Jon Amiel

Jon Amiel is one of cinema's great chameleons, and I mean that as praise. From the BAFTA-nominated The Singing Detective to Sommersby, Copycat, Entrapment, the gleefully absurd The Core, and the contemplative Creation, he refuses to be pinned to a single genre. Critics sometimes read that range as a lack of signature, but I see a Cambridge-trained craftsman who simply enjoys solving different problems. I find his willingness to swing from intimate drama to disaster spectacle genuinely refreshing. The data quirk listing his birthplace as the Roman Empire is amusing; he is, of course, an unmistakably English gentleman from London.

Name (English)

Jon Amiel

Name (Japanese)

ジョン・アミエル

Reading

じょん・あみえる

Born

May 20, 1948 (age 78)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rat

Origin

London, Roman Empire

Occupation

film director / film producer / television director / director

University

University of Cambridge

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Amiel
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%9F%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1702735

Tags

• film director
• film producer
• television director

Last updated

2026-06-24

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.