Bryce, Ian 1956–

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BRYCE, Ian 1956

PERSONAL

Born 1956, in Totnes, England.

Addresses: Agent The Gersh Agency, 232 North Canon Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

Career: Producer, production manager, and stunt performer.

Awards, Honors: Academy Award nomination (with Mark Gordon II, Gary Levinsohn, and Steven Spielberg), best picture, 1998, PGA Golden Laurel Award (with Spielberg, Allison Lyon Segan, Bonnie Curtis, Gordon, and Levinsohn), motion picture producer of the year, Golden Satellite Award nomination (with Gordon, Levinsohn, and Spielberg), best motion picturedrama, 1999, all for Saving Private Ryan; Film Award nomination (with Cameron Crowe), best film, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and Australian Film Institute Award nomination (with Crowe), best foreign film, 2001, both for Almost Famous.

CREDITS

Film Work:

Production assistant, Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: Episode VIReturn of the Jedi, and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi ), Twentieth CenturyFox, 1983.

Second assistant director (Macau/Sri Lanka locations), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Paramount, 1984.

Second assistant director, Electric Dreams, Metro GoldwynMayer/United Artists, 1984.

Associate producer, Howard the Duck (also known as Howard: A New Breed of Hero ), Universal, 1986.

Unit production manager, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Paramount, 1988.

Unit production manager and assistant director, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Buena Vista, 1988.

Executive in charge of production, Willow, Metro GoldwynMayer/United Artists, 1988.

Effects production manager, Field of Dreams, Universal, 1989.

Production manager (USA), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Paramount, 1989.

Unit production manager, Joe versus the Volcano, Warner Bros., 1990.

Unit production manager, The Rocketeer, Buena Vista, 1991.

Associate producer and production manager, Batman Returns, Warner Bros., 1992.

Line producer and unit production manager, Rising Sun, Twentieth CenturyFox, 1993.

Unit production manager and producer, The Beverly Hillbillies, Twentieth CenturyFox, 1993.

Executive producer and unit production manager, Speed, Twentieth CenturyFox, 1994.

Producer, Twister (also known as Catch the Wind ), Universal/Warner Bros., 1995.

Producer and stunt performer, Hard Rain (also known as Flood and Pluie d'enfer ), Paramount, 1998.

(With Mark Gordon II, Gary Levinsohn, and Steven Spielberg) Saving Private Ryan, DreamWorks, 1998.

Producer, Forces of Nature, DreamWorks, 1999.

Producer, Almost Famous (also known as Untitled: Almost Famous the Bootleg Cut ), DreamWorks, 2000.

Producer, SpiderMan, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2000.

Producer, Tears of the Sun, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2003.

Producer, SpiderMan 2, Sony Pictures Releasing, 2004.

Television Work:

Second assistant director, Chiller, CBS, 1985.

Associate producer, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, 1985.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Himself, The Making of "Speed," 1994.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

Entertainment Weekly, September 11, 1998, p. 20.

Screen Finance, February 20, 1997.

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