Paul Spurrier is a British former child actor

Child actor

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 on stage, television, and film, and a screenwriter and film director. He appeared in more than thirty different roles, with credits including Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

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and The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys (docudrama)

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for the BBC

BBC

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, Tales of the Unexpected

Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)

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for Anglia Television

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, and the feature film The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese

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. He also appeared in "Der schwarze Bumerang" – a little Australian/German TV-Serial in 4 parts in 1982. Here he played the role of the 15-year-old boy, had adventures in Australian outbacks with some aborigines.

After school in Norwich

Norwich

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, East Anglia

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 he attended the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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 and the London International Film School. He worked for the Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

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 in Great Britain and for such companies as Avid

AVID

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, 3Com

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 and Cisco

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 before writing and directing feature films including Live on Arrival, Underground (1998), and P

P (film)

-Plot:Whilst growing up in rural Thailand, a young orphan girl is taught the ways of magic by her grandmother. But when grandmother falls sick, Dau is lured to Bangkok to find work so that she can buy medicine. She finds herself working in a go-go bar, and her journey from naiveté to maturity is...

 (2005). The latter was made in the Thai language

Thai language

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 in Thailand

Thailand

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, where Spurrier has now settled. In 2007, Spurrier was Director of Photography of 'The Edge of Empire' – an epic historical drama about the birth of the Thai nation. In 2009, he was Director of Photography of 60 episodes of a Thai television series 'Nak Su Nork Sang Wian' – the first time a Westerner had performed this task. In 2008 and 2009, Spurrier has been the International Administration Director of the Bangkok International Film Festival.

External links

• Short biography, from the website of the film 'P'
• Interview with Paul Spurrier, Eat My Brains, 11 August 2005
• Official site of 'P'