Jan de Bont was born in the Netherlands to a Roman Catholic Dutch family on the 22 of October 1943. He has always had a creative mind and good mentality for camera techniques and soon got into film as a popular cinematographer. He worked on a huge number of films before finding himself on the production of the film Speed (1994/I), which became his first as a director. The film was a success and took him onto the next set for Twister (1996), which he also directed. But then the total flops st ...[Read Story]