Colin Higgins
COLIN HIGGINS (1941-1988)
was born in Moumea, New Caledonia (a group of islands in the
Pacific Ocean) on July 28th 1941. He grew up in Australia, studied
at the Sorbonne University in Paris and at the University College
of Los Angeles.
He later became a US citizen and worked as a professional actor,
screenwriter and film director in California. While still a film
student at UCLA he wrote a short subject for his Master's degree
which he later turned into the 1970 feature film "Harold and
Maude", which was the first film he directed. The film was a
box-office flop that turned into a cult success, and combines black
humour with Higgins' own preoccupation with sudden death.
He directed a total of five films before dying of AIDS on August
5th 1988. He was only 47.