Donald Seaton Cammell was a Scottish film director who enjoys a cult reputation thanks to his debut film "Performance", which he co-directed with Nicolas Roeg. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Cammell was a prodigy as a society portrait painter and thanks to family connections became a central figure of the swinging London social scene of the 1960s, specifically of what became known as the 'Chelsea Set'. Cammell's father was biographer to Aleister Crowley, and Crowley, … Wikipedia
Directed by the maverick film director and painter Donald Cammell and co-written by himself and his wife China Kong, it has been released in three different versions. www.walkenworks.com/wildside.html
Committed suicide after his movie Wild Side (1995) was recut against his wishes. This was Cammell's fourth feature film in 25 years. Art prodigy as a child, trained at the Royal Academy School of Art, became a celebrated portrait painter in London in the www.imdb.com/name/nm0131910/
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