Biography
Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑntɔ ɲoːˈɦɑnəsˈxɛrɪt kɔrˈbɛiɱ vɑɱ ˌʋɪlənsˈʋaːrt]; born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, film director, and music video director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both bands over three decades. His music videos include Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" (1990), U2's "One" (version 1) (1991), Bryan Adams' "Do I Have to Say the Words?", Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" (1993), Travis's "Re-Offender" (2003) and Coldplay's "Talk" (2005). He directed the films "Viva la Vida" (2008), the Ian Curtis biographical film Control (2007), The American (2010), and A Most Wanted Man (2014), based on John le Carré's 2008 novel of the same name; and Life (2015), after the friendship between Life magazine photographer Dennis Stock and James Dean. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anton Corbijn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as
안톤 코빈 · 안톤 코르빈
Photos
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Roles across career
Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).
24
Acting credits
24
Directing
1
Writing
3
Other crew
Most critically rated
Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)
Most commercially successful
Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)
- 1
1,533 votesThe American
2010 · movie
- 2
1,509 votesA Most Wanted Man
2014 · movie
- 3
949 votesControl
2007 · movie
- 4
375 votesLife
2015 · movie
- 5
56 votesJoy Division
2009 · movie
- 6
43 votesSquaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
2023 · movie
- 7
36 votesSpirits in the Forest
2019 · movie
- 8
19 votesBono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman
2023 · movie
Career timeline
By release / first air year · movie & TV merged
1982 1 title(s)
1988 1 title(s)
1990 1 title(s)
1993 1 title(s)
1997 1 title(s)
2000 1 title(s)
2002 1 title(s)
2005 2 title(s)
2006 4 title(s)
Depeche Mode: 1985–86 “The Songs Aren't Good Enough, There Aren't Any Singles and It'll Never Get Played on the Radio”
movie · Art Direction · ★ 7.5
Depeche Mode: 1987–88 “Sometimes You Do Need Some New Jokes…”
movie · as Self · ★ 8.5
Depeche Mode: 1991–1994 “We Were Going to Live Together, Record Together… and It Was Going to Be Wonderful…”
movie · as Self · ★ 8.5
Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey
movie · as Self - Interviewee · ★ 6.5
