Richard Holmes is UK/US citizen and a notably successful independent film producer working in the United Kingdom today, producing award-winning films that have been both commercially and critically successful. He is married to actress Catherine Russell

Catherine Russell

Catherine Russell is a British stage, television and screen actress.-Personal:Catherine Russell is the daughter of actor Nicholas Smith and his wife Mary. She is married to film producer Richard Holmes and they have two children, Sam and Poppy...

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Career

Began his career in a comedy double-act, The Gruber Brothers, with Stefan Schwartz

Stefan Schwartz

Stefan Schwartz is an English/Canadian film and television director/writer plus a former actor , most known for the feature film Shooting Fish and his work for the BBC on Spooks and Luther.-Biography:...

. He produced Schwartz's debut feature film, the award-winning Soft Top, Hard Shoulder (1993), winner of a BAFTA Scotland

BAFTA Scotland

BAFTA in Scotland is the Scottish branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Formed in 1997, the branch holds an annual awards ceremony, the British Academy Scotland Awards , to recognise achievement by performers and production staff in Scottish film, television and video games...

 for Best Film and Best Actor. He went on to co-write and produce Shooting Fish

Shooting Fish

Shooting Fish is a 1997 British film co-written by Richard Holmes and Stefan Schwartz. Holmes produced and Schwartz directed. It co-starred Dan Futterman and Stuart Townsend as two con men with Kate Beckinsale as their unwilling assistant. It was produced by Winchester Films and partly funded by...

(1997) starring Kate Beckinsale

Kate Beckinsale

Kathryn Bailey "Kate" Beckinsale is an English actress. After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in Much Ado About Nothing while still a student at Oxford University...

, Stuart Townsend

Stuart Townsend

Stuart Townsend is an Irish actor and director. His most notable portrayals are of the characters Lestat de Lioncourt in the 2002 film adaptation of Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned, and Dorian Gray in the 2003 film adaptation of Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.-Early life and...

 and Dan Futterman

Dan Futterman

Daniel Futterman is an American actor and screenwriter. Although he is known for several high-profile acting roles, including Val Goldman in the film The Birdcage, and Vincent Gray on the CBS television series Judging Amy, he is also a screenwriter...

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He then produced the multi-award-winning Waking Ned

Waking Ned

Waking Ned is a 1998 comedy film by English writer and director Kirk Jones. It stars Ian Bannen, David Kelly and Fionnula Flanagan. Kelly was nominated for a Screen Actors' Guild award for his role as Michael O'Sullivan. The film is set in Ireland but was filmed on location in the Isle of Man...

(1998) written and directed by Kirk Jones

Kirk Jones

Kirk Jones also referred to as Sticky Fingaz or Sticky, is an American rapper, actor, and a member of the hip-hop group Onyx...

. He was nominated, alongside his producing partner Glynis Murray, for a Producers Guild of America

Producers Guild of America

Producers Guild of America is a trade organization representing television producers, film producers and New Media producers in the United States. The PGA's membership includes over 4,700 members of the producing establishment worldwide...

 Award.

Between 1999 - 2002 he was managing Director of Civilian Content Plc. This company co-financed 24 Hour Party People

24 Hour Party People

24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom...

(2002) and sold Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham is a 2002 comedy-drama film starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi first released in the United Kingdom. The film was directed by Gurinder Chadha...

(2002) to international distributors.

In 2008 he produced, alongside Christian Colson

Christian Colson

Christian Colson , is a British film producer. He is best known as the producer of the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire, for which he received numerous awards including the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for best picture.-Producer:*The Descent *Separate Lives *Eden Lake *Slumdog...

, the critically acclaimed feature film Eden Lake

Eden Lake

Eden Lake is a 2008 British horror film, written and directed by James Watkins and starring Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender and Jack O'Connell.-Plot synopsis:...

(2008), written and directed by James Watkins

James Watkins

Professor James Watkins is Director, Sport and Exercise Science Research Centre at the University of Wales Swansea. He is an advisory board member of the Journal of Sports Sciences and an editorial board member of the European Journal of Physical Education.He was chairman of the biomechanics...

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In 2011 he finished the film adaptation of the novel Resistance (Owen Sheers novel)

Resistance (Owen Sheers novel)

Resistance is a novel by Welsh poet and author Owen Sheers. The plot centres around the inhabitants of a valley near Abergavenny in Wales in 1944–45, shortly after the failure of Operation Overlord and a successful German counter-invasion of Britain , and a group of German Wehrmacht soldiers who...

by Owen Sheers

Owen Sheers

Owen Sheers is a Welsh poet, author, playwright, actor and TV presenter.-Biography:Owen Sheers was born in Suva, Fiji in 1974 and brought up in Abergavenny, South Wales...

 for debut film director, Amit Gupta. The film stars Andrea Riseborough

Andrea Riseborough

-Early life:Riseborough grew up in Whitley Bay. In reference to The Long Walk To Finchley, she has described her parents as "working-class Thatcherites"....

 and Michael Sheen

Michael Sheen

Michael Christopher Sheen, OBE , is a Welsh stage and screen actor. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England and made his professional debut opposite Vanessa Redgrave in When She Danced at the Globe Theatre in 1991...

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Filmography

• Resistance (2011) (producer)
• Eden Lake
  Eden Lake
  Eden Lake is a 2008 British horror film, written and directed by James Watkins and starring Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender and Jack O'Connell.-Plot synopsis:...
  
  (2008) (producer)
• The Abduction Club
  The Abduction Club
  The Abduction Club is a British film directed by Stefan Schwartz. Based loosely on real events, the plot centres around a group of outlaws who abduct women in order to marry them. It was written by Richard Crawford and Bill Britten.-Synopsis:...
  
   (2002) (producer)
• Dead Babies (2000) (producer)
• The Jolly Boys Last Stand (2000) (executive producer)
• Waking Ned
  Waking Ned
  Waking Ned is a 1998 comedy film by English writer and director Kirk Jones. It stars Ian Bannen, David Kelly and Fionnula Flanagan. Kelly was nominated for a Screen Actors' Guild award for his role as Michael O'Sullivan. The film is set in Ireland but was filmed on location in the Isle of Man...
  
  (1998) (producer)
• Shooting Fish
  Shooting Fish
  Shooting Fish is a 1997 British film co-written by Richard Holmes and Stefan Schwartz. Holmes produced and Schwartz directed. It co-starred Dan Futterman and Stuart Townsend as two con men with Kate Beckinsale as their unwilling assistant. It was produced by Winchester Films and partly funded by...
  
  (1997) (producer)
• Solitaire For 2 (1995) (producer)
• Soft Top, Hard Shoulder (1993) (producer)

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