John Howe
Birthday: Born in 1957-08-21 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
À la recherche du Hobbit
Character:
À la recherche du Hobbit (French for Looking for the Hobbit) is an exploratory documentary series directed by Olivier Simonnet in 2014, in which illustrator John Howe, story-teller Nicolas Mezzalira, and Professor Leo Carruthers of the University of Paris-Sorbonne explore real-world settings and famous myths that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien's mythology. The documentary explores many locations of Medieval significance....
Movie Credits
A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings'
Character: Self, conceptual designer
The making of Peter Jackson's adaptation of Tolkien's classic work....
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
Character: Self
A documentary about the influences on Tolkien, covering in brief his childhood and how he detested the onslaught of industry through the idyllic countryside, moving on to describe his fighting experience from WWI, and closing with a look at the Finnish inspiration for the scholar's self-invented languages of Elfish. In between are interviews with the cast of the films and some clips, by far the most from "The Fellowship of the Ring", but a few glimpses of Rohan riders (from "The Two Towers") are...
The Making of The Fellowship of the Ring
Character: Self
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." Created by filmmaker Costa Botes (personally selected by Peter Jackson), this documentary uses raw footage to reveal the inside story on how the greatest adventure film franchise was born....