Bradshaw, John 1952- (Jon Bradshaw)

PERSONAL

Born in 1952, in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.

Addresses:

Agent—Great North Artists Management, Inc., 350 Duponte, Toronto M5R 1V9 Canada. Manager—Wisdom Literary, 287 South Robertson Blvd., Suite 258, Beverly Hills, CA 90211.

Career:

Director, editor, producer, and screenwriter.

Awards, Honors:

Independent Spirit Award nomination (with Alan Rudolph), best screenplay, Independent Features Project, 1989, for The Moderns; Video Premiere Award nomination, best director, DVD Exclusive Awards, 2001, for Full Disclosure.

CREDITS

Film Director:

Not Another Love Story, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, 1978.

That's My Baby (also known as Je veux un bebe), Gemini Film Productions, 1984.

The Big Slice, New City Releasing, 1991.

Specimen, Combustion Film Productions, 1996.

Lethal Tender (also known as Deadly Currents), Republic Pictures, 1997.

The Undertaker's Wedding (also known as Ji epouse un croque-mort), Astra Cinema, 1997.

Reaper (also known as The Reaper), World International Network, 1998.

Breakout (also known as Breakout: Batteries Included and 3 ninjas et l'invention du siecle), 1998.

Triggerman, Trimuse Entertainment, 2001.

Full Disclosure, First Look Pictures Releasing, 2001.

Sleeping Dogs Lie (short), 2006.

Film First Assistant Director:

Fireballs, 1987.

Still Life (also known as Art Killer Framed and Still Life: The Fine Art of Murder), 1988.

Hostile Takeover (also known as The Devastator and The Office Party), MTI Home Video, 1988.

Red Blooded American Girl, Prism Pictures, 1990.

The Swordsman, 1993.

Red Hot, 1993.

April One, Astral Films, 1993.

Stalked (also known as Traquee), Republic Pictures, 1994.

Relative Fear (also known a Le silence d'Adam and The Child), Republic Pictures, 1994.

Death Wish V: The Face of Death (also known as Death Wish 5: The Face of Death and Death Wish: The Face of Death), Trimark Pictures, 1994.

The Paper Boy (also known as The Paperboy), Allegro Films, 1994.

No Exit (also known as Fatal Combat), No Exit Productions, 1995.

Meet Prince Charming, New City Releasing, 1999.

Film Assistant Director:

Soul Survivor, 1994.

Waiting for Michelangelo, 1995.

Film Second Assistant Director:

Caribe, Miramax, 1987.

Film Additional Unit Director:

Gladiator Cop (also known as Gladiator Cop: The Swordsman II), Monarch Home Video, 1994.

Film Editor:

Not Another Love Story (also known as Je veux un bebe), Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, 1978.

That's My Baby, Gemini Film Productions, 1984.

Film Producer:

Not Another Love Story, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, 1978.

Film Coproducer:

Waiting for Michelangelo, 1995.

Film Associate Producer:

No Exit (also known as Fatal Combat), No Exit Productions, 1995.

Full Disclosure, First Look Pictures Releasing, 2001.

Television First Assistant Director; Movies:

Murder One, 1988.

(Second unit) Liar's Edge, 1992.

The Legend of the Ruby Silver, ABC, 1996.

Happy Face Murders, Showtime, 1999.

Zebra Lounge (also known as Rendez-vous au Zebra Lounge), HBO, 2001.

Hunger Point, Lifetime, 2003.

Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart (also known as Driven to Succeed and Martha Stewart—L'obcession du success), NBC, 2003.

Crazy for Christmas, Lifetime, 2005.

Television Director; Movies:

The Battle of Vimy Ridge art 1: Setting the Stage, 1997.

The Battle of Vimy Ridge art 2: Keys to Victory, 1997.

The Battle of Vimy Ridge art 3: The Battle Looms, 1997.

20.13 ord im Blitzlicht (also known as 2013—Thou Shalt Not Kill), 2000.

Killing Moon, 2000.

Between Truth and Lies, Lifetime, 2006.

Obituary, Lifetime, 2006.

They Come Back, Lifetime, 2007.

Television Work; Movies:

Footage provider, A Family Divided, NBC, 1995.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

Not Another Love Story, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, 1978.

(Narration only; as Jon Bradshaw) She Dances Alone, 1981.

That's My Baby (also known as Je veux un bebe), 1984.

(As Jon Bradshaw; with Alan Rudolph) The Moderns, Alive Films, 1988.

The Big Slice, New City Releasing, 1991.

Specimen, Combustion Film Productions, 1996.

The Undertaker's Wedding (also known as J'i epouse un croque-mort), Astra Cinema, 1997.

Film Stories:

(As Jon Bradshaw) 80 Blocks from Tiffany, 1979.

Bradshaw, John (1602–59). President of the High Court of Justice which tried and condemned Charles I to death. An undistinguished lawyer, Bradshaw may have been selected because he had assisted John Lilburne in his judicial appeal in 1645, and because none of the leading judges would act. At the trial he found himself out of his depth. Discomfited by the king's challenge to the court's legality, Bradshaw twice ordered him removed. At the end of the trial, after sentencing Charles as a ‘tyrant, traitor and murderer’, he denied the king's request to be heard. Elected president of the Council of State, Bradshaw nevertheless challenged Cromwell's right to dismiss the Rump Parliament in 1653. A committed republican, he continued to be a thorn in Cromwell's side, being elected to the protector's parliaments of 1654 and 1656, but prevented from taking his seat. When the Rump was recalled in 1659, Bradshaw resumed his presidency of the Council of State, but died a few months before the Restoration. He was posthumously attainted of treason, and along with those of other deceased regicides, his corpse was exhumed and hanged, and his skull impaled in Westminster Hall.

Ian Gentles