Biography
Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937) is an English filmmaker. He was raised in an Army family, meaning that for most of his early life, his father — an officer in the Royal Engineers — was absent. Ridley's older brother, Frank, joined the Merchant Navy when he was still young and the pair had little contact. During this time the family moved around, living in (among other areas) Cumbria, Wales and Germany. He has a younger brother, Tony, also a film director. After the Second World War, the Scott family moved back to their native north-east England, eventually settling in Teesside (whose industrial landscape would later inspire similar scenes in Blade Runner). He enjoyed watching films, and his favourites include Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane and Seven Samurai. Scott studied in Teesside from 1954 to 1958, at Grangefield Grammar School and later in West Hartlepool College of Art, graduating with a Diploma in Design. He progressed to an M.A. in graphic design at the Royal College of Art from 1960 to 1962.
At the RCA he contributed to the college magazine, ARK and helped to establish its film department. For his final show, he made a black and white short film, Boy and Bicycle, starring his younger brother, Tony Scott, and his father. The film's main visual elements would become features of Scott's later work; it was issued on the 'Extras' section of The Duellists DVD. After graduation in 1963, he secured a job as a trainee set designer with the BBC, leading to work on the popular television police series Z-Cars and the science fiction series Out of the Unknown. Scott was an admirer of Stanley Kubrick early in his development as a director. For his entry to the BBC traineeship, Scott remade Paths of Glory as a short film.
He was assigned to design the second Doctor Who serial, The Daleks, which would have entailed realising the famous alien creatures. However, shortly before Scott was due to start work, a schedule conflict meant that he was replaced on the serial by Raymond Cusick.
At the BBC, Scott was placed into a director training programme and, before he left the corporation, had directed episodes of Z-Cars, its spin-off, Softly, Softly, and adventure series Adam Adamant Lives!
In 1968, Ridley and Tony Scott founded Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), a film and commercial production company.Five members of the Scott family are directors, all working for RSA. Brother Tony has been a successful film director for more than two decades; sons, Jake and Luke are both acclaimed commercials directors as is his daughter, Jordan Scott. Jake and Jordan both work from Los Angeles and Luke is based in London.
In 1995, Shepperton Studios was purchased by a consortium headed by Ridley and Tony Scott, which extensively renovated the studios while also expanding and improving its grounds.
Filmography
all 253
Movies 217
Producer 156
self 54
TV Shows 36
Director 35
Writer 3
Untitled Gladiator Sequel (2024)
Alien: Romulus (2024)
Napoleon (2023)
A Haunting in Venice (2023)
L'Âge d'or de la pub (2023)
Great Expectations (2023)
Boston Strangler (2023)
Still Missing Morgan (2023)
Behold (2023)
Kaleidoscope (2023)
Film, the Living Record of Our Memory (2022)
Choose or Die (2022)
Death on the Nile (2022)
The Making of the Last Duel (2021)
House of Gucci (2021)
The Last Duel (2021)
Naked Singularity (2021)
Kipchoge: The Last Milestone (2021)
The Blade Runner Phenomenon (2021)
Kreka: Dreamcatcher (2021)
Life in a Day 2020 (2021)
Jungleland (2020)
Raised by Wolves (2020)
The Donut King (2020)
Switzerlanders (2020)
A Christmas Carol (2019)
Earthquake Bird (2019)
The Last Vermeer (2019)
Our Friend (2019)
The Hot Zone (2019)
Sword-and-Sandal (2019)
The Aftermath (2019)
The Journey (2019)
Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)
The Passage (2019)
Thlípsi (2018)
Trumbull Land (2018)
Zoe (2018)
Strange Angel (2018)
American Woman (2018)
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (2018)
The Terror (2018)
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema (2018)
All the Money in the World (2017)
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies (2017)
Newness (2017)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)
2036: Nexus Dawn (2017)
Robin Hood - En vert et contre tous (2017)
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos (2017)
Alien: Covenant (2017)
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: The Crossing (2017)
Phoenix Forgotten (2017)
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives (2017)
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Meet Walter (2017)
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Last Supper (2017)
The Good Fight (2017)
Taboo (2017)
Mindhorn (2016)
India In a Day (2016)
Morgan (2016)
Jean-Claude Van Johnson (2016)
The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian' (2016)
Concussion (2015)
The Martian (2015)
Zero (2015)
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015)
Equals (2015)
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' (2015)
Child 44 (2015)
Annabel's: A String of Naked Lightbulbs (2015)
The Man in the High Castle (2015)
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
Italy in a Day - Un giorno da italiani (2014)
Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' (2014)
Halo: Nightfall (2014)
Klondike (2014)
Christmas in a Day (2013)
Killing Kennedy (2013)
Out of the Furnace (2013)
The Counselor (2013)
Trespassing Bergman (2013)
Bruce Springsteen - Springsteen & I (2013)
Crimes of the Century (2013)
The East (2013)
Welcome to the Punch (2013)
Stoker (2013)
Killing Lincoln (2013)
The Polar Bears (2012)
Japan in a Day (2012)
The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus (2012)
World Without End (2012)
Coma (2012)
Loom (2012)
Bergmans video (2012)
Britain in a Day (2012)
Prometheus (2012)
Ghost Recon: Alpha (2012)
The Grey (2012)
Prophets of Science Fiction (2011)
Life in a Day (2011)
Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
The Pillars of the Earth (2010)
Cyrus (2010)
The A-Team (2010)
Robin Hood (2010)
The Real Robin Hood (2010)
Cracks (2009)
The Good Wife (2009)
Into the Storm (2009)
Tell-Tale (2009)
Body of Lies (2008)
The Andromeda Strain (2008)
Dangerous Days: Making 'Blade Runner' (2007)
All Our Variant Futures (2007)
Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard (2007)
Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film (2007)
The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth (2007)
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling (2007)
American Gangster (2007)
Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition) (2007)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
The Company (2007)
Postcards From Provence (2007)
Black Rain: Making The Film (2006)
A Good Year (2006)
50 Films to See Before You Die (2006)
Tristan & Isolde (2006)
The Path to Redemption (2006)
Orpheus (2006)
Le court des grands (2005)
In Her Shoes (2005)
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema (2005)
All the Invisible Children (2005)
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us (2005)
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' (2005)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood (2005)
Thunder Perfect Mind (2005)
Numb3rs (2005)
Tricks of the Trade: Making 'Matchstick Men' (2004)
Murder by Numbers (2004)
The Beast Within: Making Alien (2003)
Matchstick Men (2003)
Cinema16: British Short Films (2003)
Mark Lawson Talks To (2003)
Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey (2003)
Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds (2002)
Beat the Devil (2002)
The Alien Saga (2002)
Ticker (2002)
Hostage (2002)
Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend' (2002)
AFP: American Fighter Pilot (2002)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
American Cinematheque: Ridley Scott Q&A (2001)
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal (2001)
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul (2001)
Hannibal (2001)
Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport (2000)
The Last Debate (2000)
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (2000)
Gladiator (2000)
Where the Money Is (2000)
RKO 281 (2000)
The Alien Legacy (1999)
The Directors (1999)
Clay Pigeons (1998)
G.I. Jane (1997)
Hollywood Halloween (1997)
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money (1996)
White Squall (1996)
Kulturzeit (1995)
The Browning Version (1994)
Monkey Trouble (1994)
The King of Ads, Part 2 (1993)
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
The King of Ads (1991)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Black Rain (1989)
Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)
Legend (1985)
Blade Runner (1982)
Alien: Experience in Terror (1979)
Alien (1979)
Giger's Alien (1979)
The Duellists (1977)
The Hollywood Greats (1977)
One of the Missing (1968)
Robert (1967)
Adam Adamant Lives! (1966)
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
Boy and Bicycle (1965)
Z-Cars (1962)
Human, Anew
Emma's War
The Hunger
Claire
Flashman
Fae
The Asset
The Kind One
The Big Blow
Vicious
The Chronology of Water
Prime Target
The Fishing Fleet
Untitled Andy Weir/Scott Free Project
Conspiracy of Paper
Shadow Divers
Archangels
David
War Party
A Better Place
Task Force Two
Cascade
The King of L.A.
Timeless
Embraced by the Light
Honor
Tranquility Base
Untitled Ridley Scott Western Project
First Ascent
Potsdamer Platz
Bomb
Untitled Ridley Scott/Kieran Fitzgerald Project
Children of the Jungle
Mgmt
The Infinite Machine
Gertrude Bell
Gravity Rush
Nemesis
In Vitro
Outside
The Last Werewolf
Settle Down
Fly Me to the Moon
Alien
Queen & Country
Narco Sub
Echo Valley
The Devil in the Kitchen
Sinking Spring
The Riders
Berlin Nobody
Untitled Bee Gees Biopic
Hello America
Blade Runner 2099
Mind MGMT
The Killing Sea
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1937-11-30 (86 years old)
Birth PlaceSouth Shields, United Kingdom
Religionatheism
Height
RelationshipsFelicity Heywood (1964-01-01 - 1975-01-01), Sandy Watson (1979-01-01 - 1989-01-01)
SpouseGiannina Facio
ChildrenJordan Scott, Jake Scott, Luke Scott
MotherElizabeth Jean Scott
SiblingsTony Scott
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom, United States
Also Known As Sir Ridley Scott, Ридли Скотт, 雷利·史考特, ริดลีย์ สก็อตต์, 리들리 스콧, ريدلي سكوت, リドリー・スコット, Ридли Скот, Ridley Leighton Scott, 雷德利·斯科特
AwardsCommander of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, The George Pal Memorial Award, Knight Bachelor, Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
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