Reginald Stephen Traviss was born on 12 February 1977 and is an English film director and writer.
10 Facts About Reg Traviss
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Reg Traviss came to public attention in the UK in 2006 with the theatrical release of his debut feature film Joy Division which starred Ed Stoppard, Bernard Hill, Tom Schilling, Bernadette Heerwagen and Ricci Harnett.
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Reg Traviss followed up his World War Two drama with Psychosis, a psychological thriller that starred Charisma Carpenter, Ricci Harnett and Justin Hawkins.
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Reg Traviss began making short films in the late 1990s.
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From 2003 to 2005 Reg Traviss worked on his directorial debut for the big screen Joy Division, a fictionalised biopic which he wrote with Rosemary Mason, based on real life events set in the last months of World War II and the early years of the Cold War.
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In 2008 to 2009 Reg Traviss worked on his second film Psychosis, a psychological-thriller and homage in the style of cult British chillers Hammer House of Horror and Tales of the Unexpected.
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In 2010 Reg Traviss directed Screwed, the film adaptation of Ronnie Thompson's bestselling Prison Officer's memoir Screwed: The Truth About Life as a Prison Officer, by Headline Publishing about an ex-British soldier who returns from Iraq to take job in one of England's toughest jails only to find that the Officers are more corrupt than the convicts.
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Winehouse's family and Reg Traviss publicly disapproved of the film, saying that it was "downright inaccurate" and contained "basic untruths".
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Between 2008 and 2010, Reg Traviss was in a relationship with Suicide Girls burlesque dancer Raven Isis Holt, who featured in his 2010 film Psychosis.
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Reg Traviss was in a relationship with singer Amy Winehouse from early 2010 until her death on 23 July 2011.