David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC ( born March 15, 1943 ) is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor.

Also in 2006, Cronenberg was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars.

Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ) and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ) recalled the Vietnam war ; George A. Romero satirized the consumer society in his zombie sequel, Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ); Canadian director David Cronenberg featured the " mad scientist " movie sub-genre by exploring contemporary fears about technology and society, and reinventing " body horror ", starting with Shivers ( 1975 ).

** David Cronenberg, Canadian film director

In 1991, Canadian director David Cronenberg took up the challenge.

eXistenZ is a 1999 body horror-science fiction film by Canadian director David Cronenberg.

He also appeared in the 1981 film Scanners, a science fiction / horror film by Canadian director David Cronenberg that has since attained cult film status.

The Brood is a 1979 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, and Art Hindle.

Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and singer Deborah Harry.

David Cronenberg recalled how, when he was a child, he used to pick up television signals from Buffalo, New York, late at night after Canadian stations had gone off the air, and how he used to worry he might see something disturbing not meant for public consumption.

Shivers ( filmed as Orgy of the Blood Parasites ; alternate titles: The Parasite Murders, They Came from Within, and Frissons for the French Canadian distribution ) is a 1975 Canadian body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg.

She is the sister of Canadian film director David Cronenberg and the mother of Aaron Woodley, also a filmmaker.

Canadian director David Cronenberg adapted the novel for the screen in 2011, starring Robert Pattinson as Eric Packer.

* A Dangerous Method, a 2011 Canadian historical film directed by David Cronenberg and starring Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley and Vincent Cassel.

Stereo is a 1969 Canadian film written, shot, edited and directed by David Cronenberg.

Crimes of the Future is a 1970 Canadian film written, shot, edited and directed by David Cronenberg.

Fast Company is a 1979 film by Canadian director David Cronenberg.

* March 15-David Cronenberg, filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional actor

After two short sketch films and two short art-house features ( the black and white Stereo and the colour Crimes of the Future ) Cronenberg went into partnership with Ivan Reitman.

Cronenberg stated that while writing the screenplay for Naked Lunch, he felt a moment of synergy with the writing style of Burroughs.

Cronenberg has said that his films should be seen " from the point of view of the disease ", and that, for example, he identifies with the characters in Shivers after they become infected with the anarchic parasites.

Cronenberg also worked for nearly a year on a version of Total Recall but experienced " creative differences " with producers Dino De Laurentiis and Ronald Shusett.

A fan of Philip K. Dick, author of " We Can Remember it For You Wholesale ," the short story upon which the film was based, Cronenberg related ( in the biography / overview of his work, Cronenberg on Cronenberg ) that his dissatisfaction with what he envisioned the film to be and what it ended up being pained him so greatly that for a time, he suffered a migraine just thinking about it, akin to a needle piercing his eye.

Cronenberg has collaborated with composer Howard Shore on all of his films since The Brood ( 1979 ), ( see List of noted film director and composer collaborations ) with the exception of The Dead Zone ( 1983 ), which was scored by Michael Kamen.

Since 1988's Dead Ringers, Cronenberg has worked with cinematographer Peter Suschitzky on each of his films ( see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations ).

Suschitzky was the director of photography for The Empire Strikes Back, and Cronenberg remarked that Suschitzky's work in that film " was the only one of those movies that actually looked good ", which was a motivating factor to work with him on Dead Ringers.

Having worked with many Hollywood stars, Cronenberg says that he did not get to make a film with an actor he wanted to work with for a long time, Burt Reynolds.

In 1999, Cronenberg was inducted onto Canada's Walk of Fame and was awarded with the Silver Bear Award at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.

* David Cronenberg: Interviews with Serge Grunberg.

* BBC interview with Cronenberg ( Video, October 2007 )

Wuppertal in its present borders was formed in 1929 by merging the early industrial cities of Barmen and Elberfeld with Vohwinkel, Ronsdorf, Cronenberg, Langerfeld, and Beyenburg.

Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, such as Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone.

Hwang wrote the libretto to Howard Shore's opera The Fly, based on David Cronenberg's 1986 film of the same name ; the opera premiered on July 2, 2008 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, France with Cronenberg as director and Plácido Domingo conducting.

Rather than attempting a straight adaptation, Cronenberg took a few elements from the book and combined them with elements of Burroughs ' life, creating a hybrid film about the writing of the book rather than the book itself.

As in Videodrome, Cronenberg gives his psychological statement about how humans react and interact with the technologies that surround them.

Cronenberg refers to himself a " nonbeliever " who sees death as the " end of all consciousness.

He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979.

Kaput rescued Zösky by dressing like a woman, who had caught Boudini's eye, because there were no more women on Hokus Pokus ( they had all disappeared, apparent nod to the David Cronenberg film Crimes of the Future.

The first of his features for which Cronenberg did not originate the screenplay, Fast Company brought Cronenberg into contact with cinematographer Mark Irwin, art director Carol Spier, sound editor Bryan Day, and film editor Ronald Sanders, all of whom became regular crew members on his films.

Most of his films have been at least partially financed by Telefilm Canada, and Cronenberg is a vocal supporter of government-backed film projects, saying " Every country needs system of government Grant ( money ) | grants in order to have a national cinema in the face of Hollywood ".

Cronenberg has also appeared as an actor in other directors ' films.

Holm has also appeared in two David Cronenberg films, Naked Lunch ( 1991 ) and eXistenZ ( 1999 ) and was Harold Pinter's favourite actor, the playwright once stating: " He puts on my shoe, and it fits!

After starring in films directed by Andrew Niccol, Clint Eastwood and David Cronenberg, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1999 for his performance in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Shore continued to score numerous films from 1995 – 2001, including two David Fincher films, Seven ( 1995 ) The Game ( 1997 ) and The Truth About Cats and Dogs ( 1996 ); also, he collaborated on two films with Cronenberg along with Tom Hanks ' directorial debut, That Thing You Do !.

Whereas the 1958 original was followed by two sequels, Cronenberg has said that the stories in his films have definitive beginnings and endings, and he has never considered making a sequel to one of his own films, although others have made sequels to Cronenberg films, including Scanners ( 1981 ).

* David Cronenberg, director of body horror films including Shivers ( 1975 ) and Rabid ( 1977 ), as Ed's supervisor in the boardroom.

Actor Nicholas Campbell, who plays William Smith's young sidekick, also went on to appear in three more Cronenberg films, The Brood, The Dead Zone and Naked Lunch.

Campbell has also worked extensively with David Cronenberg, appearing in such films as Naked Lunch, The Dead Zone, Fast Company, and The Brood.