What is Michael Winner?
[[File:Michael Winner, 2010 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|180px|Winner in January 2010]] '''Michael Robert Winner''' (30 October 1935 &ndash; 21 January 2013) was an [[English people|English]] [[movie director]], [[movie producer|producer]], [[screenwriter|writer]], [[movie editor|editor]], [[actor]] and [[restaurant]] [[critic]]. He was known for his work on the ''[[Death Wish (series)|Death Wish movie series]]''. Winner was born on 30 October 1935 in [[Hampstead]], [[London]], [[England]].<ref name=filmr>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/19/Michael-Winner.html |title=Michael Winner Biography (1935-2013) |publisher=Filmreference.com |date=30 October 1935 |accessdate=2011-10-19}}</ref> His parents were Jewish [[immigrant]]s: his mother was [[Poles|Polish]] and his father was of [[Russia]]n descent.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21128503 BBC obituary]</ref> He studied at [[St Christopher School, Letchworth]], and [[Downing College, Cambridge]]. He was [[marriage|married]] to Geraldine Lynton-Edwards from 2011 until his death in 2013. Winner [[retire]]d in December 2012 and died on 21 January 2013 in [[Kensington]], London, England from a [[liver]] [[illness]], aged 77.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21123532|title=Michael Winner: Death Wish director dies aged 77|publisher=BBC News|date=21 January 2013|accessdate=21 January 2013}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} == Other websites == {{commons category}} {{wikiquote}} * {{IMDb name|0935382|Michael Winner}} * [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/447985/index.html Profile at BFI's Screenonline] * [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=207902&apid=112016 Profile at Turner Classic Movies] {{actor-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Winner, Michael}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category:2013 deaths]] [[Category:Actors from London]] [[Category:British critics]] [[Category:British movie editors]] [[Category:Deaths from liver disease]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in London]] [[Category:Jewish Briti