James Clavell

James Clavell was born on Oct 10, 1921 in Australia. James Clavell's big-screen debut came with The Fly directed by Kurt Neumann in 1958. James Clavell is known for Shogun directed by Jerry London, Richard Chamberlain stars as Pilot-Major John Blackthorne and Toshirô Mifune as Lord Yoshi Toranaga. James Clavell has got 1 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award James Clavell achieved is Primetime Emmy Awards. The upcoming new movie James Clavell plays is Tai-Pan which will be released on Nov 07, 1986.

James Clavell was born on October 10, 1921, in Sydney, New South Wales, as Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell. He was a film and TV writer and producer. During World War II, he was a British soldier and a Japanese prisoner on Java and in Singapore, which led to his great interest in things East Asian and Japanese, and the experiences of prisoners of war. Clavell is very well-known for "The Great Escape" (1963), "The Satan Bug" (1965), "King Rat" (1965), "To Sir, with Love" (1967), "Tai-Pan" (1986), "Nobel House" ( 1988), and especially "Shogun" (1980). Shogun won the Golden Globe Award for Best TV-Series - Drama and the Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series: James Clavell (executive producer).Clavell was married to April Stride, and they were the parents of two children. He died on September 7, 1994, in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.