Description:
As a youth, he produced a number of short films on Super 8 and video. After short stints as guest auditor at Filmacademy Vienna and Filmhochschule Munich, Boll studied literature and economics in Cologne and Siegen. He graduated from university in 1995 with a doctorate in literature. From 1995-2000, he was a producer and director with Taunus Film-Produktions GmbH. Boll was Chief Executive Officer of Bolu Filmproduction and Distribution GmbH which he founded in 1992. He continued to direct, write and produce feature films until 2016. His main companies are Event Films in Vancouver and Bolu Film in Germany. A longtime resident of Canada, Boll owned the restaurant "Bauhaus" in Vancouver from 2015 to 2020. Returned to Germany and resumed filming in 2020.
Birthday
June 22, 1965
Born In
Wermelskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Alternative names
Dr. Uwe Boll
Height
173 cm
Spouse/Ex-
Natalie Boll April 5, 2014 - present (1 child),Leanne D. Chan (divorced)
Trivia
Challenged his critics in June 2006 to a "put up or shut up" boxing match. His production company issued a press release stating that Boll would challenge his 5 harshest critics each to a 10-round boxing match. To be eligible, the critic must have written two extremely negative reviews of Boll, in print or on the Web, in 2005. The fights are documented in the film Raging Boll (2010). Boll knocked out all opponents.
Quotes
[about his favorite book, Gustavus Myers' "The History of American
Fortunes"] If you follow the money, like the writer did - the history
of the Rockefellers and so on - you find out about real history. In
that book you learn that the Civil War was not about freeing the
slaves, it was all about the money, etc.
Nickname
The Raging Boll
Trademarks
Frequently directs movie versions of video games
