Edgar Wright

Edgar Howard Wright is an English filmmaker and actor. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive utilisation of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a signature editing style that includes transitions, whip pans and wipes. He first made independent short films before making his first feature film A Fistful of Fingers in 1995. Wright created and directed the comedy series Asylum in 1996, written with David Walliams. After directing several other television shows, Wright directed the sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), which aired for two series and starred frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

18 April 1974

Born on the same birth day (18 April): Aleksanteri Aava • Ardito Desio • Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown • Clive Revill • Costas Ferris • Doug Insole • Eugene Houdry • George Shirley • Jochen Rindt • Maurice Goldhaber • Miklós Rózsa • Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran • Peter Hordern • Robert Christgau • Samuel P. Huntington • Siegfried Bettmann

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