British film director, screenwriter, and producer Robert Crombie first
stumbled into the movie business whilst working as a journalist in
Russia in the 1990s; and after lucking through his first few TV
commercials, he has never looked back.
Robert is a co-writer and a producer of the MGM action comedy Soldiers
of Fortune, starring Christian Slater, Sean Bean, Ving Rhames, Dominic
Monaghan and James Cromwell.
Robert is also the writer, director, and a co-producer of the drama
Sappho. Sappho holds the box office record for a local movie in its
home territory of Ukraine. Though a low-budget movie filmed without
star name actors, Sappho has sold to over 50 countries, including USA
and UK.
Robert is the writer, creative director, and a co-producer of the 2D
animation feature The Good Soldier Shweik, based on Jaroslav Hasek's
famous anti-war comic novel, The Good Soldier Svejk.
Robert is also the director of the Lionsgate-distributed woman in peril
thriller Assassin's Run, starring Christian Slater, Cole Hauser, Angus
Macfayden and Sofya Skya. The released version of the film has been
heavily re-edited by the female lead, the wife of the film's financier.
Robert has also directed over 250 TV commercials for some of the
world's leading consumer brands. After many years working in Eastern
Europe, he is based in UK again. He studied at Oxford University, and
he speaks fluent Russian and Italian and English with an English
accent. He is a keen diver and anthropologist.
