Gary Jones (costume designer)
Gary Jones( born February 24, 1947) is an American costume designer who has nearly 60 costume credits in films and TV.
He is perhaps most known for his work on films such as" Oz the Great and Powerful" and" The Talented Mr. Ripley".
He was nominated at the 72nd Academy Awards in the category of Best Costumes for his work on the film" The Talented Mr. Ripley".
His nomination was shared with Ann Roth.
Jack Davenport
Jack Arthur Davenport( born 1 March 1973) is an English actor.
He is best known for his roles in the television series" This Life" and" Coupling", and as James Norrington in the" Pirates of the Caribbean" series.
He has also appeared in other Hollywood films, such as" The Talented Mr. Ripley".
More recently, he was part of the ensemble cast in the drama series" FlashForward" and" Smash", and took the lead role in the 2013 ITV drama series" Breathless".
Weak Spot
Weak Spot is a 1975 French- Italian- German thriller film directed by Peter Fleischmann.
It is based on a novel by Antonis Samarakis.
Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella,( 6 January 195418 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter.
He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.
He won the Academy Award for Best Director for" The English Patient"( 1996).
In addition, he received three more Academy Award nominations; he was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for both" The English Patient"( 1996) and" The Talented Mr. Ripley"( 1999), and was posthumously nominated for Best Picture for" The Reader"( 2008), as a co-producer.
Celia Weston
Celia Weston( born December 14, 1951) is an American character actress.
Weston received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her performance in" Dead Man Walking"( 1995), and also had supporting roles in more than 40 movies, including" The Talented Mr. Ripley"( 1999)," In the Bedroom"( 2001)," Hulk"( 2003), and" The Village"( 2004).
On television, she is best known for her role as Jolene Hunnicutt in the CBS sitcom" Alice"( 1981 – 85).
Peter Fleischmann
Peter Fleischmann( born 26 July 1937) is a German film director.
William Horberg
William Horberg is an American film producer, chair of the Producers Guild of America on the East coast, and guest curator at ArtYard.
His films include Anthony Minghella's adaptations of the novels" The Talented Mr. Ripley" and" Cold Mountain".
He also produced the" Fallen Angels" series for Showtime from 1993- 1995.
Purple Noon
Purple Noon( also known as Full Sun, Blazing Sun, Lust for Evil, and Talented Mr. Ripley) is a 1960 crime thriller film directed by René Clément, loosely based on the 1955 novel" The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith.
The film stars Alain Delon in his first major film, along with Maurice Ronet( as Philippe Greenleaf) and Marie Laforêt( as Marge); Billy Kearns( an expatriate American actor well- liked in France) plays Greenleaf's friend Freddy Miles, and Romy Schneider appears briefly in an uncredited role as Freddie Miles' companion.
The film, principally in French, contains brief sequences in Italian.
Screenwriter Paul Gégauff wrote a variation on the same story in 1968 when he worked on" Les biches" for Claude Chabrol.
Highsmith's source novel was adapted again in 1999 under the original title," The Talented Mr. Ripley".
Bruno Cesari
Bruno Cesari( 24 October 1933 – 30 January 2004) was an Italian art director.
He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film" The Last Emperor".
He received his second Oscar nomination at the 2000 Academy Awards for his work on the film" The Talented Mr. Ripley", which he shared with Roy Walker.
The Talented Mr. Ripley (film)
The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Anthony Minghella.
An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel of the same name, the film stars Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, Jude Law as Dickie Greenleaf, Gwyneth Paltrow as Marge Sherwood, Cate Blanchett as Meredith Logue, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Freddie Miles.
The novel was previously filmed twice.
In 1957, a one- hour version was produced for the TV anthology series" Studio One", directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, though no recording survives.
In 1960, a full- length film version was released, entitled" Purple Noon" and directed by René Clément, starring Alain Delon in his first major role.
Claude Chabrol's 1968 film" Les biches" uses many elements of Highsmith's novel but switches the gender of the main characters.
The screenwriter was Paul Gégauff, who had also written the script for" Purple Noon".

Question: Which film has the director who was born first, The Talented Mr. Ripley (Film) or Weak Spot?
Answer: Weak Spot