John Thompson

John Thompson grew up in Rome. As a producer, his body of work in the Italian film industry throughout the 1980s and 1990s included such notable movies as Franco Zeffirelli's Otello, which received Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Academy Award nominations; Claude d'Anna's Salome; Lina Wertmuller's Camorra, which won three David di Donatello Awards including Best Actress (Angela Molina); Liliana Cavani's The Berlin Affair; Paul Schrader's The Comfort of Strangers, starring Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren; Ivan Passer's Haunted Summer; Jerzy Skolimowski's Torrents of Spring; and Giuseppe Tornatore's Everybody's Fine, starring Marcello Mastroianni.

In 1998, Mr. Thompson relocated to Los Angeles to be Head of Production for Millennium Films, the capacity that he continues in today. Among the many movies that he has been a producer on for Millennium are Paul Chart's American Perfekt; Susanna Styron's Shadrach; Some Girl, which won the Best Director (Rory Kelly) award at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival; Audrey Wells' Guinevere, starring Sarah Polley; George Hickenlooper's The Big Brass Ring; Sylvester Stallone's Rambo; David Schwimmer's Trust; Simon West's The Mechanic; Lee Daniels' The Paperboy; the three The Expendables films; and Antoine Fuqua's Brooklyn's Finest and Olympus Has Fallen.

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