Filmography

• A Dangerous Age (1959) director
• A Cool Sound from Hell (1959) director
• Dr. Blood's Coffin
  Doctor Blood's Coffin
  -Plot:Peter Blood is a young doctor who experiments with bringing the dead back to life. His early subject is the deceased husband of Linda Parker , a woman he is attracted to...
  
  (1961) director
• The Snake Woman
  The Snake Woman
  The Snake Woman is a 1961 British horror film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Susan Travers, John McCarthy.-Cast:* Susan Travers as Atheris* John McCarthy as Charles Prentice* Geoffrey Denton as Colonel Clyde Wynborn...
  
  (1961) director
• During One Night
  During One Night
  During One Night is a 1961 British drama film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Don Borisenko and Susan Hampshire....
  
  (1961) director
• The Young Ones
  The Young Ones (film)
  The Young Ones is a British musical released in 1961, featuring singer Cliff Richard. The musical was directed by Sidney J. Furie and was produced by Kenneth Harper and Andrew Mitchell for the Associated British Studios at Elstree. The original screenplay was written by Peter Myers and Ronald...
  
  (1961) director
• Three on a Spree
  Three on a Spree
  Three on a Spree is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Sidney J. Furie.-Cast:* Jack Watling as Michael Brewster* Carole Lesley as Susan* Renee Houston as Mrs. Gray* John Slater as Sid Johnson* Colin Gordon as Mitchell* John Salew as Mr...
  
  (1961) director
• The Boys
  The Boys (1962 film)
  The Boys is a 1962 British courtroom drama film, directed by Sidney J. Furie and with a screenplay by Stuart Douglass.-Plot:A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime...
  
  (1962) director
• Wonderful Life (1964) director (US title: Swingers' Paradise)
• The Leather Boys
  The Leather Boys
  The Leather Boys is a 1964 British drama film about the rocker subculture in London featuring a gay motorcyclist. This film is notable as an early example of a film that violated the Hollywood production code, yet was still shown in the United States, as well as an important film in the genre of...
  
  (1964) director
• The Ipcress File
  The Ipcress File (film)
  The Ipcress File is a 1965 British espionage film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Michael Caine, Guy Doleman, and Nigel Green. The screenplay by Bill Canaway and James Doran was based on Len Deighton's 1962 novel, The IPCRESS File. It has won critical acclaim and a BAFTA award for best...
  
  (1965) director
• The Appaloosa (1966) director
• The Naked Runner
  The Naked Runner
  The Naked Runner is a 1967 British espionage film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, Edward Fox. It was the last film Sinatra made with Warner Bros...
  
  (1967) director
• The Lawyer
  The Lawyer (film)
  The Lawyer is a 1970 courtroom drama film loosely based on the Sam Sheppard murder case, in which a physician is charged with killing his wife following a highly-publicized and sloppy investigation. The film was directed by Sidney J. Furie and starred Barry Newman as the energetic, opportunistic...
  
  (1970) director
• Little Fauss and Big Halsy
  Little Fauss and Big Halsy
  Little Fauss and Big Halsy is a 1970 film directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Robert Redford and Michael J. Pollard, also featuring Lauren Hutton, Noah Beery Jr and Lucille Benson....
  
  (1970) director
• Lady Sings the Blues (1972) director
• Hit!
  Hit!
  Hit! is a 1973 action film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor. It is about a federal agent trying to destroy a drug zone after his daughter dies from a heroin overdose.-Cast:*Billy Dee Williams - Nick Allen...
  
  (1973) director
• Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
  Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
  Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York is a 1975 film directed by Sidney J. Furie. The film was written by Kenny Solms, based on the novel by Gail Parent...
  
  (1975) director
• Gable and Lombard
  Gable and Lombard
  Gable and Lombard is a 1976 American biographical film directed by Sidney J. Furie. The screenplay by Barry Sandler is based on the romance and consequent marriage of legendary screen stars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard...
  
  (1976) director
• The Boys in Company C (1977) director, writer
• The Entity
  The Entity
  The Entity is a horror film purportedly based on the paranormal events a woman and her family experienced circa 1976. It stars Barbara Hershey as a woman tormented by an unseen entity...
  
  (1981) director

• Purple Hearts
  Purple Hearts (film)
  Purple Hearts is a 1984 war film directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Ken Wahl and Cheryl Ladd. A Navy surgeon and a nurse fall in love while serving in Vietnam during the war...
  
  (1984) director
• Iron Eagle
  Iron Eagle
  Iron Eagle is a 1986 action film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Jason Gedrick and Louis Gossett, Jr. While it received mixed reviews, the film earned US$24,159,872 at the U.S. box office. Iron Eagle was followed by three sequels: Iron Eagle II, Aces: Iron Eagle III and Iron Eagle on the...
  
  (1986) director, writer
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
  Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
  Superman IV: The Quest for Peace is a 1987 superhero film directed by Sidney J. Furie. It is the fourth film in the Superman film series and the last installment to star Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel. It is the first film in the series not to be produced by Alexander and Ilya Salkind, but...
  
  (1987) director
• Iron Eagle II
  Iron Eagle II
  Iron Eagle II is a 1988 action film directed by Sidney J. Furie. It is the first sequel to the 1986 film Iron Eagle, with Louis Gossett, Jr. reprising his role as Charles "Chappy" Sinclair. An uncredited Jason Gedrick also returns as ace pilot Doug Masters in the film's opening scene.Like its...
  
  (1988) director, writer
• The Taking of Beverly Hills
  The Taking of Beverly Hills
  The Taking of Beverly Hills is a 1991 American action film, directed by Sidney J. Furie. An action film in the vein of Die Hard, the film stars Ken Wahl, fresh off the success of the television series Wiseguy, as football hero Boomer Hayes, with Matt Frewer stepping up to the plate as his sidekick,...
  
  (1991) director, writer
• Iron Eagle III
  Aces: Iron Eagle III
  Aces: Iron Eagle III is a 1992 action film directed by John Glen and is the third installment of the Iron Eagle film series, with Louis Gossett, Jr. reprising his role as Col. Charles "Chappy" Sinclair. Also starring are Japanese actor Sonny Chiba and retired boxing champion Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini...
  
  (1992) writer
• Ladybugs
  Ladybugs (film)
  Ladybugs is a comedy and sports movie released in 1992 starring Rodney Dangerfield as Chester, a business man who takes over a girls soccer team which the company he works for sponsors to get them to win and get a promotion...
  
  (1992) director
• Iron Eagle on the Attack (1995) director
• Hollow Point (1996) director
• Top of the World
  Top of the World (1997 film)
  Top of the World is a 1997 film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Peter Weller,Dennis Hopper and Tia Carrere. It also featured David Alan Grier, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Peter Coyote and Joe Pantoliano. The plot is set in Las Vegas....
  
  (1997) director
• The Rage (1997) director
• In Her Defense
  In Her Defense
  In Her Defense is a 1998 thriller directed by Sidney J. Furie.Lawyer Andrew Garfield begins having an affair with a deaf woman, played by Marlee Matlin, when one day her husband catches them. Andrew Garfield then kills him. From then on in the film, the lawyer must defend his lover who's blamed for...
  
  (1998) director
• My 5 Wives
  My 5 Wives
  My 5 Wives is a 2000 film starring Rodney Dangerfield, directed by Sidney J. Furie.-Plot:A wealthy businessman, Monty Peterson, travels to Utah hoping to open a ski resort after his third marriage ends in divorce...
  
  (2000) director
• Cord
  Cord (film)
  Cord is a 2000 Thriller film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Tilly, Bruce Greenwood, and Vincent Gallo.-Plot:...
  
  (2000) director
• Under Heavy Fire
  Under Heavy Fire
  Under Heavy Fire, also known as Going Back is a 2001 American made-for-TV war film. It stars Casper Van Dien, Jaimz Woolvett, Bobby Hosea, Joseph Griffin, Carre Otis, Kenneth Johnson, Daniel Kash, Martin Kove and is directed by Sidney J. Furie. It was filmed in Canada, Philippines and Vietnam.The...
  
  (2001) TV Film, director
• Partners in Action (2002) director
• The Fraternity
  The Fraternity
  The Fraternity is a Canadian thriller film about a circle of friends that create an elite club while at the Runcie High School and cheat on an exam. The subsequent pressure on the administration for someone in the circle to be a "rat", and finding one of the students dead, prompts one of their...
  
  (2002) director
• Global Heresy
  Global Heresy
  Global Heresy is a 2002 comedy-drama film about a highly successful American rock band recovering from the loss of their leader by going into seclusion in the United Kingdom.-Plot:...
  
  (2002) director
• Detention
  Detention (2003 film)
  Detention is a 2003 action film directed by Sidney J. Furie. It stars Dolph Lundgren as a soon to be retired high school teacher Sam Decker who has one last detention to proctor and Alex Karzis as Chester Lamb. Unfortunately, drug runners have chosen to attack the school...
  
  (2003) director
• Direct Action
  Direct Action (film)
  Direct Action is a 2004 action film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Dolph Lundgren.-Plot:With fifteen years on the force, Sergeant Frank Gannon has spent the last three years on the Direct Action Unit task force, fighting gang crime and corruption.The DAU, led by Captain Stone , is a...
  
  (2004) director, writer
• American Soldiers (2005) director
• The Veteran
  The Veteran (TV film)
  The Veteran is a 2006 American made-for-TV war film directed by Sidney J. Furie. It stars Ally Sheedy, Bobby Hosea, Michael Ironside, Casper Van Dien, Colin Glazer, Sean Baek, Jim Codrington and Donald Burda. It is a follow up to Under Heavy Fire....
  
  (TV Film) (2006) director

Awards and nominations

• 1965 Nominated for Palme d'Or
  Palme d'Or
  The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...
  
   at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival
  1965 Cannes Film Festival
  -Jury:*André Maurois *Olivia de Havilland *Goffredo Lombardo *Max Aub *Michel Aubriant *Rex Harrison *François Reichenbach...
  
   for Best Film of 1965 for The IPCRESS File
  The Ipcress File
  The IPCRESS File was the first spy novel by Len Deighton, published in 1962.It was made into a film in 1965 produced by Harry Saltzman and directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Michael Caine as the protagonist....
  
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• 1966 Won Bafta
  British Academy of Film and Television Arts
  The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.-Introduction:...
  
   for Best British Film in Colour of 1965 for The IPCRESS File
  The Ipcress File
  The IPCRESS File was the first spy novel by Len Deighton, published in 1962.It was made into a film in 1965 produced by Harry Saltzman and directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Michael Caine as the protagonist....
  
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• 1980 Nominated Razzie Award for Worst Director with Richard Fleischer
  Richard Fleischer
  -Early life:Fleischer was born in Brooklyn, the son of Essie and animator/producer Max Fleischer. He started in motion pictures as director of animated shorts produced by his father including entries in the Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman series.His live-action film career began in 1942 at the RKO...
  
   for The Jazz Singer
  The Jazz Singer (1980 film)
  The Jazz Singer is a 1980 American musical remake of the 1927 classic The Jazz Singer. It starred Neil Diamond, Sir Laurence Olivier, and Lucie Arnaz and was co-directed by Richard Fleischer and Sidney J...
  
  
• 2006 Lady Sings the Blues, starring Diana Ross
  Diana Ross
  Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
  
   as jazz legend Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
  
   and directed by Furie in 1972 inducted into the Black Movie Awards Classic Cinema Hall of Fame.
• 2010 Directors Guild of Canada
  Directors Guild of Canada
  The Directors Guild of Canada is a Canadian labour union, founded in 1962, which represents more than 3,700 professionals from 48 different occupations in the Canadian film and television industry. The DGC represents directors, assistant directors, location managers, production assistants and...
  
   Lifetime Achievement Award

External links

• Complete filmography at New York Times
• Petrocelli quiz