Actor

Martin Brest

Directing

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Acting credits

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

1.5

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Movies: 15Series: 1Crew credits: 14

TMDB ID: 769

IMDb ID: nm0000976

Known for: Directing

Born: August 8, 1951

Age: 74

Place of birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1972 - 2025

Years active: 54

Average TMDB rating: 6.8

Wikidata: Q363117

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Director (6)Producer (3)Assistant Director (1)Co-Director (1)Original Film Writer (1)Thanks (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

Martin Brest (born August 8, 1951) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. After his feature debut, Going in Style (1979), he directed the action comedies Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and Midnight Run (1988), which were critical and commercial hits. He then directed Scent of a Woman (1992), starring Al Pacino, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, and earned Brest nominations for Best Director and Best Picture. He followed it with Meet Joe Black (1998), which received mixed reviews. Brest's next film was Gigli (2003). After disagreements between Brest and Revolution Studios, creative control was taken from him, resulting in a radically re-written and re-shot version of the original film being released, which became his first and only unprofitable film and, in fact, a major box-office bomb and was widely panned. It remains his last film to date.