Nigel Dick (born 21 March 1953) is a British
music video
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and film director, writer and musician from
Catterick, England, now based in Los Angeles, California. He directed the
Britney Spears
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videos "
...Baby One More Time" and "
Oops!... I Did It Again", the
Band Aid video "
Do They Know It's Christmas?
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", as well as over 500
[Nigel Dick counts his works as Dick Films (DF), as of 4 June 2014 he reached DF514. Compar]
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Education
Educated at Gresham's School
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in Holt and the University of Bath
(Virgil, Georgics II)
, mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind
, established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...
, Dick began completing a degree in architecture before pursuing a career in the record business. He has studied mime
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and is also a graduate of Judith Weston's ''Acting for Directors'' class.
Career
Before success in the music and film industries, Dick worked as an architectural draughtsman, a clerk, a busker, a cab driver, a construction worker, a farm labourer, a motorcycle messenger, a salesman, a waiter, and served a spell in the Sewage Division of the Anglian Water Authority.
He began his career in the record business working at Stiff Records, where he stayed for five years working as a Press Officer with Madness, Ian Dury
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, Lene Lovich
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, and the Plasmatics
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. In the early 1980s he moved to Phonogram Records
Phonogram Incorporated was started in 1970 as a successor to Philips Phonographic Industries, a unit of the Grammophon-Philips Group (GPG), a joint venture of Philips N.V. of the Netherlands and Siemens A.G. of Germany.
Phonogram was the nam ...
, and while there directed the original Band Aid video "Do They Know It's Christmas?
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a charity song written in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia. It was first recorded by Band Aid, a supergroup assembled by Geldof and Ure consisting of pop ...
". In 1986, Dick moved to Los Angeles to direct his first feature film, ''P.I. Private Investigations
''P.I. Private Investigations'' (also known as ''Private Investigations'') is a 1987 crime-thriller film directed by Nigel Dick and starring Clayton Rohner, Ray Sharkey and Paul Le Mat.
Premise
A young architect finds himself being stalked by ...
'' (1987), starring Ray Sharkey
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and Martin Balsam
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. Since then, he has directed more than twenty documentaries and feature films and over three hundred music videos.
In 1986, he co-founded Propaganda Films
Propaganda Films was an American music video and film production company founded in 1986 by producers Steve Golin and Sigurjón Sighvatsson and directors David Fincher, Nigel Dick, Dominic Sena and Greg Gold. By 1990, the company was prod ...
, which became a major production company for commercials and music videos.
In 1999, he directed MTV's first made-for-TV feature 2gether. The film spawned a TV series and two albums. Dick co-wrote a number of songs on the first album which reached the US Top-40 chart. In 2003, he directed '' Seeing Double'' for Simon Fuller
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's 19 Entertainment, which starred British pop act S Club 7
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.
In 2008, E! Television announced that Dick would be co-exec producing an observational documentary TV series starring Pamela Anderson
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Anders ...
titled: ''Pam: Girl On The Loose''.
The artists and bands Dick has directed to date include The Offspring
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, Britney Spears
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, Jessica Simpson, Cher
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, Breaking Benjamin
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, Anastacia, Carly Simon, Def Leppard
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, Steve Lukather, Nickelback
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, Guns N' Roses
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, Oasis, Kula Shaker
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, Backstreet Boys
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The ...
, Toni Braxton
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, Good Charlotte
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, Green Day, Il Divo
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, Elton John
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, Ricky Martin
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, Paul McCartney
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, Amy Lee
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, Tina Turner
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, Celine Dion
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, REM, Gloria Estefan, S Club, Pussycat Dolls
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* Pussycat (band), a Dutch country and pop group
* The Pussycats, a 1960s Norwegian rock band
* The Pussycats, a group signed to Kama Sutra Records
Albums
* '' Pussy Ca ...
, and Ozzy Osbourne
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.
Awards
Dick's film work has won three MTV awards, two Billboard Awards and three MVPA awards. His videos have won a BRIT Award
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and been nominated for more than twenty MTV Video Music Awards, sixteen MuchMusic Video Awards and a Grammy Award
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. His personal nominations include a Cable Ace Award
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.
Musician
Dick was a founding member of pub-rock act and Stiff Records house band The Stiff All Stars. The band was briefly signed to Stiff Records competitor Chiswick Records in 1980 and subsequently released four singles. Band line-up was Andy Murray (guitar, vocals), Nigel Dick (bass, vocals), Pete Glenister (guitar), Nicky Graham (keys), Nick Garnett (drums) Hugh Attwooll (drums). Despite the band's name, only Murray and Dick actually worked at Stiff Records; Glenister went on to write and produce for Alison Moyet, Kirsty MacColl
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, Darius; Graham went on to write and produce Bros. The band appeared on TV, toured frequently and supported Jools Holland, Any Trouble, Madness amongst others. Jamie West-Oram
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featured in an early line-up but left to join The Fixx
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. Thirty years after the release of their first single The Stiff All Stars released their first album '12.5 on a 10 Point Scale' which featured new tracks and previously unreleased songs featuring Jeff Porcaro
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( Toto) and Carl Verheyen
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(Supertramp
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).
Dick also appeared four times as a backing musician on BBC's famous 'Top of the Pops': three times with Jona Lewie
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Career
Lewie was born on 14 March ...
('Kitchen at Parties', 'Stop The Cavalry') and once with ''The Snowmen'' ('Hokey Cokey').
As a guitarist, he has released three albums:
* ''Flesh, Blood, Wood, Steel''
* ''All Stars And All Sorts''
* ''Weird Stain''
Traveller
Dick travels by bicycle and has made cycle tours in fourteen countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, and various European countries, including the United Kingdom.
Selected music video credits (as director)
Credits as director (Feature films)
* ''Berlin Calling
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The film premiered at the 2008 Locarno Inte ...
'' (2014
''Berlin Calling''
* '' Pam: Girl on the Loose'' (2008)
* '' In Search of the Lanterne Rouge'' (currently in production
rougefilm
* ''Callback
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* Callback (telecommunications), the telecommunications event th ...
'' (2005
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* '' Seeing Double'' (2003)
* '' 2gether'' (2000)
* ''The Elevator'' (1996) (co-director, one segment)
* '' Dead Connection'' (1993)
* '' Deadly Intent'' (1988)
* ''P.I. Private Investigations
''P.I. Private Investigations'' (also known as ''Private Investigations'') is a 1987 crime-thriller film directed by Nigel Dick and starring Clayton Rohner, Ray Sharkey and Paul Le Mat.
Premise
A young architect finds himself being stalked by ...
'' (1987)
Credits as screenwriter (Feature films)
* ''Berlin Calling
''Berlin Calling'' is a 2008 German tragicomedy film directed by Hannes Stöhr. The film depicts the events following DJ and producer Ickarus's ( Paul Kalkbrenner) institutionalization for drug abuse.
The film premiered at the 2008 Locarno Inte ...
'' (2014) (co-writer
Berlin Calling
* '' Stella Roxx and The Killer Bats From Hell'' (2006)
* '' Sidewalking'' (2004)
* ''Callback
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* Callback (comedy), a joke which refers to one previously told
* Callback (computer programming), executable code that is passed as a parameter to other code
* Callback (telecommunications), the telecommunications event th ...
'' (1999)
* '' Everlasting'' (1995)
* '' Country Lyfe'' (1994)
* '' Hangman'' (1994)
* '' Introducing Eric'' (1993) (story by Nigel Dick)
* '' One Week in April'' (1990)
* '' Deadly Intent'' (1988) (uncredited)
* ''P.I. Private Investigations
''P.I. Private Investigations'' (also known as ''Private Investigations'') is a 1987 crime-thriller film directed by Nigel Dick and starring Clayton Rohner, Ray Sharkey and Paul Le Mat.
Premise
A young architect finds himself being stalked by ...
'' (1987) (story by Nigel Dick)
References
External links
Nigeldick.com
– Official site
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English film directors
British film directors
British music video directors
People educated at Gresham's School
Alumni of the University of Bath
People from Catterick, North Yorkshire
1953 births
Living people
British expatriates in the United States