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13 unusual facts about Tony Scott


Alex Hutchinson

His clarinet style has been greatly influenced by Benny Goodman, Buddy DeFranco, Artie Shaw and to a lesser degree Tony Scott.

Billy Blanks

Perhaps his most recognizable role to mainstream audiences is in the opening scene of Tony Scott's The Last Boy Scout as a doomed pro-football player.

Christian Wagner

He is also best known collaborating numerous times with film director Tony Scott, from the films True Romance (1993) to Domino (2005).

Deborah Scroggins

Director Tony Scott had planned to direct a film based on the book and initial reports indicated that Nicole Kidman would star as McCune.

Édgar Ramírez

In 2005, he made his major motion picture début playing Choco, Domino Harvey's love interest in the film Domino directed by Tony Scott.

FM Le Sieur

FM’s career has spanned over fifteen years, and his other work includes Tony & Ridley Scott’s series The Hunger starring David Bowie; the films of Alain Desrochers, his long-time collaborator, beginning with La Bouteille; and television series Musée Eden, Nos Étés et Music Hall, “Les Soeurs Elliot”, “Les Bougon” and “Charlie Jade”, an international co-production filmed in South Africa.

Jackie Paris

Other major musicians with whom Jackie recorded include Hank Jones, Charlie Shavers, Joe Wilder, Wynton Kelly, Eddie Costa, Coleman Hawkins, Bobby Scott, Max Roach, Lee Konitz, Donald Byrd, Gigi Gryce, Ralph Burns, Tony Scott, Neal Hefti, Terry Gibbs, Johnny Mandel, Oscar Pettiford, and many others.

Jessy Schram

Schram appeared in Tony Scott's film Unstoppable, starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, in which she portrayed the wife of Pine's character.

Michel Rubini

Rubini’s most famous association may be as the composer, along with Danny Jaeger, of the soundtrack to The Hunger, a film directed by Tony Scott.

Scott Free

Scott Free Productions, a film production company co-founded by filmmakers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott

Sergio Caputo

Prestigious collaborations in Sergio's career include those with Lester Bowie, Tony Scott, Mel Collins (King Crimson), Tony Bowers (Simply Red), Enrico Rava and Danilo Rea.

Somen Banerjee

Director Tony Scott was reportedly working on a film about Banerjee and the Chippendales story.

Victor Gojcaj

A former convicted criminal, turned actor, Gojcaj was spotted by film director Tony Scott while he was searching New York for ex-criminals to play the roles of the train hijackers, alongside John Travolta in the 2009 movie The Taking of Pelham 123.


A Better Tomorrow 2

In the 1993 film True Romance, directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino, Patricia Arquette's character is watching A Better Tomorrow 2 on TV.

Buddy Giovinazzo

Acclaimed action-filmmaker Tony Scott has expressed interest in developing Giovinazzo's crime novel, Potsdamer Platz into a motion picture.

Garson Yu

Since the company’s inception, Garson has collaborated with many filmmakers for his title design work including Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, John Woo, Sydney Pollack, and Ridley and Tony Scott.

Meditation music

Specific works include Tony Scott's Music for Zen Meditation (1964), Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mantra (1970), Hymnen (1966–67), Stimmung (1968), and Aus den sieben Tagen (1968), Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time (1941), and Ben Johnston, whose Visions and Spells (a realization of Vigil (1976)), requires a meditation period prior to performance.

Sonny Dallas

Moving to New York in 1955, he began performing and recording with the likes of Sal Salvador, Tony Scott, Chet Baker and Buck Clayton, Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Elvin Jones, Mary Lou Williams, Bill Evans, George Wallington, Jackie Paris and Lennie Tristano, with whom he was most closely associated.