Martin Campbell

New Zealand film and television director (born 1943)

0.75body-of-work score · ranked #1188 of 2640 directors · 1 film in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
October 24, 1943 · Hastings
Nationality
New Zealand
Directing career
23 directorial credits, 1973–2025 · first: The Sex Thief (1973) · latest: Cleaner (2025)
Work
film director, film producer, television director, actor
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
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Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1

    2006 · United Kingdom / United States / Germany · thriller, action, adventure

    Empire 500 (2008) #56 · Film Comment year-end poll 2006 #20 · Sarris's annual top 10 2006 #9

    0.754 citations

Complete filmography

All 23 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1973The Sex Thief
  • 1975Eskimo Nell
  • 1975Three for All
  • 1976Intimate Games
  • 1988Criminal Law
  • 1991Cast a Deadly Spell
  • 1991Defenseless
  • 1994No Escape
  • 1995GoldenEye
  • 1998The Mask of Zorro
  • 2000Vertical Limit
  • 2003Beyond Borders
  • 2005The Legend of Zorro
  • 2006Casino Royale
  • 2010Edge of Darkness
  • 2011Green Lantern
  • 2013Reckless
  • 2014Warriors
  • 2017The Foreigner
  • 2021The Protégé
  • 2022Memory
  • 2023Dirty Angels
  • 2025Cleaner
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