More romantic than Arnie, more sensitive than Bruce, wilder than Clint. Here’s an action movie star who always delivered in my teens, whose directorial career is as enviable and unique as any great auteur.

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (1977)

Summer City (1977)

Mad Max (1979) 👍👍

Tim (1979)

Chain Reaction (1980)

Attack Force Z (1981)

Gallipoli (1981) 👍👍

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) 👍👍

The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)

The Bounty (1984)

The River (1984)

Mrs. Soffel (1984)

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) 👍

Lethal Weapon (1987) 👍👍

Tequila Sunrise (1988)

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) 👍👍

Bird On A Wire (1990)

Air America (1990)

Hamlet (1990)

Forever Young (1992)

Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

The Man Without a Face (1993) 👍

Maverick (1994) 👍

Braveheart (1995) 👍👍

Casper (1995)

Pocahontas (1995)

Ransom (1996) 👍👍

Fathers’ Day (1997)

Conspiracy Theory (1997) 👍

FairyTale: A True Story (1997)

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) 👍

Payback (1999) 👍

Chicken Run (2000)

The Patriot (2000)

What Women Want (2000)

The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)

We Were Soldiers (2002)

Signs (2002) 👍

The Singing Detective (2003)

The Passion of the Christ (2004)

Paparazzi (2004)

Apocalypto (2006) 👍

Edge of Darkness (2010)

The Beaver (2011) 👍

Get the Gringo (2012) 👍

Machete Kills (2013)

The Expendables 3 (2014)

Blood Father (2016) 👍

Hacksaw Ridge (2016) 👍

Daddy’s Home 2 (2017)

Dragged Across Concrete (2018) 👍👍

The Professor and the Madman (2019)

Force of Nature (2020)

Fatman (2020)

Boss Level (2021)

Last Looks (2021)