Harry Bromley Davenport
| Harry Bromley-Davenport | |
|---|---|
| Born |
15 March 1950 London, England, United Kingdom |
| Other names | Davenport |
| Occupation | Film director, film producer, screenwriter, composer |
| Years active | 1969-present |
| Website | filmharry |
Harry Bromley-Davenport (born 15 March 1950 in London, England) is an English director, producer as well as in the beginning of his career a film screenwriter. He is most popular for the famous horror science-fiction video nasty Xtro (1983). He left the UK in 1990 and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. He became an American citizen in 1997.
Bromley-Davenport entered the film business in 1967 as an assistant to Nicholas Ray.
Following his apprenticeship, Bromley-Davenport made his directorial debut with the little seen Whispers of Fear (1976) and co-wrote the screenplay for The Haunting of Julia (1977), which was adapted from the Peter Straub novel Julia (1975) and starred Mia Farrow in the title role.
His biggest commercial success came in the form of Xtro (1983) which spawned two sequels related in title only. He made the second installment Xtro II: The Second Encounter (1991) in the USA, and worked exclusively there ever since.
Bromley Davenport remained within his own low-budget franchise for one more film and hired Daryl Haney to write the screenplay for Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (1995). This began an ongoing professional relationship between Bromley-Davenport and Daryl Haney, which ultimately changed the direction of Bromley-Davenport's career, culminating in a trio of films that are arguably his finest works: Life Among the Cannibals (1996), Erasble You (1998) and the true story Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001), starring Sean Young.
Three further feature films followed - all of which display his attraction to dark subject matter. His film "Smile Pretty" (2006) follows the true story of a Romanian child, played by teenaged actress Scout Taylor-Compton, who was adopted by an American man with the express intention of using her in child pornography in the USA. "Haunted Echoes", a ghost story filmed in 2008, starred Sean Young who had previously worked with Bromley-Davenport in the well received "Mockingbird Don't Sing". "Frozen Kiss" (2010) starred Mimi Rogers and was based on the tragic true story of two young people who, after a night of partying and methamphetamine, became disorientated during their drive home in a blizzard and froze to death.
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