Biography: Jon Amiel (born 20 May 1948) is an English director who has worked in film and television in both the UK and the US. After receiving a BAFTA Award nomination for the BBC series The Singing Detective (1986), he went on to direct films, including Sommersby (1993), Copycat (1995), Entrapment (1999), The Core (2003) and Creation (2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jon Amiel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.