Barry Spikings

Barry Spikings (born 23 November 1939) is a British film producer who worked in Hollywood. Spikings is best known as the producer of the 1978 film, The Deer Hunter, which won five Academy Awards. Spikings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire. After leaving Boston Grammar School he joined the local newspaper, the Boston Standard, as a trainee reporter. Later he joined the Farmers' Weekly, where he won a Golden Ear award for a fifteen-minute film that he produced and directed himself. Spikings then moved to the entertainment world. Initially, he promoted pop music festivals and later films. In the 1970s, he became the co-owner of British Lion Films; Spikings later joined EMI when it took over British Lion. For his 1978 film, The Deer Hunter,...