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The videos he directed include:

• "Video Killed the Radio Star" for The Buggles, which was the first music video MTV ever aired
• "Hungry Like The Wolf", "Rio", "Save A Prayer", "The Wild Boys" and at least half a dozen other videos from Duran Duran's first four albums
• "I'm Still Standing" and a dozen more for Elton John
• "Total Eclipse of the Heart" for Bonnie Tyler.

In 1986, he directed the classic cult movie Highlander, starring Christophe Lambert and featuring music from Queen. He later directed the sequel, , but disowned it after the producers interefered with production. Reportedly he wanted to have his credit changed to Alan SmitheeAlan Smithee and Allen Smithee are pseudonyms used between 1968 and 1999 by Hollywood film directors who want to be dissociated from a film for which they no longer wanted credit. It was used when the director could prove to the satisfaction of a panel of, but it was in his contract that he could not publicly attack the film (which he would be effectively doing by having himself credited as Alan Smithee), and the producers told him that they would take legal action against him if he had his credit changed. Instead, he left the premiere after the film started.

Filmography

• On the BeachOn the Beach is a post-apocalyptic end-of-the-world novel written by British author Nevil Shute after he had emigrated to Australia. The novel was adapted for the screenplay of a 1959 movie featuring Gregory Peck (USS Sawfish captain Dwight Lionel Towers) (2000) ( television movieA television movie (also "TV movie", "TV-movie", "made-for-TV movie", etc. is a photoplay that does not normally feature in movie theaters but is produced for, and released to, television only. It is commonly considered a type of movie, but some people re)
• Resurrection (1999)
• Tale of the Mummy (1998)
• Silent Trigger (1996)
• The Shadow (1994)
• The Real McCoy (1993)
• Blue Ice (1992)
• Ricochet (1991)
• (1991)
• Highlander (1986)
• ArenaArena (An Absurd Notion is a concept concert video filmed during the course of Duran Duran's 1984 Sing Blue Silver North American Tour. Background Instead of releasing a straight concert video, Duran Duran and director Russell Mulcahy thought it might be (1985)
• RazorbackA razorback is a mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States. The razorback in the mascot for The University of Arkansas. (1984)
• Derek and Clive Get the Horn (1980)