During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

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By the early 1980s Winner found himself in great need of a successful film and accepted Charles Bronson's request to film Death Wish II a sequel to the 1974 hit. Lee Thompson Cannon Films became Winner's mainstay during the 1980s. Death
In an interview with The Times newspaper Winner said liver specialists had told him in summer 2012 that he had between 18 months and two years to live.

Robert Michael Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) was an English film director and producer and a restaurant critic for The Sunday Times.