Director
Sidney J. Furie
93 years · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 54 films
Toronto-born Sidney J. Furie has enjoyed a distinguished career that has spanned over six decades. Having worked in every genre, Furie has directed films starring Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Robert Redford, Diana Ross, Michael Caine, Peter O'Toole, Rodney Dangerfield, Barbara Hershey, Gene Hackman, Donald Sutherland, Laurence Olivier, and countless others. He is most known for the espionage classic The Ipcress File (1965), the landmark biopic Lady Sings the Blues (1972), the franchise-generating Iron Eagle (1986), the Scorsese-beloved horror saga The Entity (1982), and the Vietnam combat chronicle The Boys in Company C (1978), which later partly inspired Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. His first two films, A Dangerous Age (1957) and A Cool Sound from Hell (1959), both independently financed, were two of the first English Canadian features ever made, produced before he emigrated to London in 1960. He became an important figure in the British New Wave, especially with The Boys (1962) and his realist drama The Leather Boys (1964), a critical darling that became a popular cult film.
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Filmography 53
Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano
2024 · Himself
Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount
2023 · Himself
Finding Hannah
2023 · Writer, Director
Drive Me to Vegas and Mars
2018 · Director, Writer
The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh
2014 · Self
The Dependables
2014 · Director
On Hoopla
Conduct Unbecoming
2011 · Director
On Amazon MX Player
The Four Horsemen
2008 · Director
The Veteran
2006 · Director
On Hoopla
American Soldiers
2005 · Director
On Plex
Direct Action
2004 · Director
On Plex
Detention
2003 · Director
On Plex
Partners in Action
2002 · Director
On The Roku Channel
Global Heresy
2002 · Director
The Fraternity
2002 · Director
Under Heavy Fire
2001 · Director
Road Rage
2000 · Director
My 5 Wives
2000 · Director
On Amazon MX Player
Hide and Seek
2000 · Director
On Tubi TV
The Collectors
1999 · Director
On Plex
In Her Defense
1999 · Director
On Tubi TV
The Rage
1997 · Director, Writer
On Plex
Top of the World
1997 · Director
On Plex
Hollow Point
1996 · Director