Background
Gibson, Brian was born on September 22, 1944 in Reading, England. Son of Victoria.
director screenwriter film producer
Gibson, Brian was born on September 22, 1944 in Reading, England. Son of Victoria.
Born in Reading, Berkshire, he studied Natural Sciences at Saint Catharine"s College, Cambridge graduating with an upper-second, and then History of Science at Darwin College, Cambridge.
He intended to become a doctor, but became interested in journalism and edited Granta, the Cambridge University magazine. After travelling in Turkey, Israel and Syria, Brian started at the British Broadcasting Corporation as a research assistant for Rene Cutforth"s program, "Europa." He then produced several editions of Horizon, a science television magazine. After this he made The Billion Dollar Bubble, which introduced James Woods to British audiences, and Gossip from the Forest with John Shrapnel.
He went on to direct Dennis Potter"s Blue Remembered Hills with, among others, Colin Welland, Helen Mirren and John Bird, as well as Breaking Glass with Hazel O"Connor, Philosophy Daniels and Jonathan Pryce.
In Hollywood, he directed Poltergeist II and Home Box Office specials which included biographies of Simon Wiesenthal and Josephine Baker. He followed up with the Tina Turner biopic, What"s Love Got to Do with lieutenant, and The Juror.
In 1998, he directed his last film, Still Crazy. Gibson married the leading lady of his television film "The Josephine Baker Story" Lynn Whitfield.
They had a daughter named Grace Gibson though the marriage dissolved in a matter of months.
He remarried, to Paula Rae Gibson and had another daughter Raphaella before he died of Ewing"s sarcoma, a form of cancer, at his wife"s side 2004. He was 59 years old.
Married Lynn Whitfield (divorced ). 1 child Grace; married Paula Guarderas. 1 child Raphaela.