Guy Ritchie

Guy Stuart Ritchie is an English filmmaker known for his crime films. He left secondary school and got entrylevel jobs in the film industry in the mid1990s. He eventually graduated to directing commercials. He directed his first film in 1995, a 20minute short which impressed investors who backed his first feature film, the crime comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels . He then directed another crime comedy, Snatch . His next two films, the romantic comedy Swept Away and the crime drama Revolver were not commercial or critical successes. The next crime drama, RocknRolla , received mixed reviews and a modest box office return. In 2009, he directed his first films in the action mystery genre, with Sherlock Holmes and its sequel Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows . Both films were major box office successes, and the two films received positive, and moderately positive reviews, respectively.

Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, the second of two children of Amber and Captain John Vivian Ritchie , former Seaforth Highlanders serviceman and advertising executive. Johns father was Major Stewart Ritchie, who died in France, in 1940, during World War II. Johns mother was Doris Margaretta McLaughlin , daughter of Vivian Guy McLaughlin and Edith Martineau , this last by whom she shares close common ancestors with Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. The McLaughlins have a pedigree going back to King Edward I of England. Ritchies mother, Amber, later married a baronet. His fathers second marriage was to Shireen Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Brompton, a former model and later Conservative politician and life peer.

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