Duncan Jones Duncan Jones Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones (born 30 May 1971) is an English film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the science fiction film "Moon" (2009), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. He has also directed "Source Code" (2011), "Warcraft" (2016) and "Mute" (2018). Duncan Zowie Jones was born in Bromley, London, on 30 May 1971, the only child of English singer-songwriter and musician David Bowie and his first wife, Angela "Angie" Bowie ("née" Barnett), an American model and actress. His maternal grandfather, George, was
The Emperor Jones (1933 film) The Emperor Jones (1933 film) The Emperor Jones is a 1933 American pre-Code film adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play of the same title, was made outside of the Hollywood studio system, financed with private money from neophyte wealthy producers, and directed by iconoclast Dudley Murphy, who had sought O'Neill's permission to film the play since its 1924 production in New York. He cast Paul Robeson in his first film role, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, and Fredi Washington. The screenplay was written by DuBose Heyward and filmed at Kaufman Astoria Studios with the beach scene shot at Jones Beach