In 1969, he made a short film based on the Ambrose Bierce story " One of the Missing". Tony Scott continued his studies in art in Leeds after failing to gain admission to the Royal College of Art in London (he would succeed in a later attempt). At the age of 16, he appeared in the short film Boy and Bicycle, Ridley's directorial debut (he was 23). Tony was a pupil at Rosebank School in Hartlepool, West Hartlepool College of Art and graduating from Sunderland Art School with a fine arts degree. One Tyneside Cinema, in Newcastle, is the last remaining newsreel cinema operating in the United Kingdom. Dixon Scott, a grand uncle, was a pioneer of the cinema chain, opening cinemas around Tyneside. Scott was born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, North East England, the youngest of three sons of Elizabeth ( née Williams) and Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers. In 2010, they received the BAFTA Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment. In 1995, both Tony and Ridley received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema. They both graduated from the Royal College of Art in London, and were among a generation of British film directors who were successful in Hollywood having started their careers making television commercials. Scott was the younger brother of film director Sir Ridley Scott. He made his theatrical film debut with The Hunger (1983) and went on to direct highly successful action and thriller films such as Top Gun (1986), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Days of Thunder (1990), The Last Boy Scout (1991), Crimson Tide (1995), Enemy of the State (1998), Man on Fire (2004), Déjà Vu (2006), and Unstoppable (2010). Anthony David Leighton Scott (21 June 1944 – 19 August 2012 ) was an English film director and producer.
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