David Compton - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

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The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story (1992)

The Silent One (1985)

Executive Producer

Death Watch (1980)

Source Material (From Novel)

The Haunting of Barney Palmer (1987)

Executive Producer

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Death Watch (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Still Having Trouble With Tears?

Death Watch (1980) -- (Movie Clip) It Seems You're Dying

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story (1992)

Producer (Feature Film)

The Silent One (1985)

Executive Producer

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Death Watch (1980)

Source Material (From Novel)

Producer (Special)

The Haunting of Barney Palmer (1987)

Executive Producer

Life Events

Videos

Death Watch (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Still Having Trouble With Tears? Opening in gloomy Glasgow, director Bertrand Tavernier introduces Harvey Keitel as Roddy whom, we’ll learn, has had a camera implanted in his eye, in the high-brow science fiction feature Death Watch, 1980, from a novel by David Compton, co-starring Romy Schneider.

Death Watch (1980) -- (Movie Clip) It Seems You're Dying Harry Dean Stanton as producer of the reality TV show named in the title, which covers people who are dying, after medicine has almost eliminated premature death, with Harvey Keitel as his quasi-reporter, observing Romy Schneider as potential star Katherine, Russell Enoch her doctor, in Bertrand Tavernier’s Death Watch, 1980.

Death Watch (1980) -- (Movie Clip) You're About To Become A Celebrity Katherine (Romy Schneider) in near-future Glasgow, where science has all-but eliminated death, has just learned she’s terminally ill, and finds she’s being promoted as the next star of the blockbuster reality TV show about dying people, meeting Derek Royle as a newspaper reporter, in Bertrand Tavernier’s Death Watch, 1980.

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