Anton Corbijn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Anton Corbijn

Dutch film director, video director and photographer

Date of Birth: 20-May-1955

Place of Birth: Strijen, South Holland, Netherlands

Profession: screenwriter, photographer, artist, music video director, film director

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard (Dutch pronunciation: ['?nt?n jo?'??n?s '??r?t k?r'b?in v?n ???l?ns'?a?rt]; born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, music video director, and film director.
He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both bands over three decades.
Some of his works include music videos for Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" (1990), U2's "One" (version 1) (1991), Bryan Adams' "Do I Have to Say the Words?", Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" (1993) and Coldplay's "Talk" (2005) and "Viva la Vida" (2008), as well as the Ian Curtis biographical film Control (2007), The American (2010), and A Most Wanted Man (2014), based on John le Carré's 2008 novel of the same name.