Known For
Directing
Born
Feb 24, 1946
Place of Birth
New Delhi, India
Credits
24 titles
Michael Radford
Biography
Michael James Radford (born 24 February 1946) is an English film director and screenwriter. He began his career as a documentary director and television comedy writer before transitioning into features in the early 1980s. His best-known credits include the 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four starring John Hurt and Richard Burton (in his final role), the Shakespeare adaptation The Merchant of Venice, the true crime drama White Mischief, and the 1994 Italian-language comedy drama Il Postino: The Postman, for which he won the BAFTA Awards for Best Direction and Best Film Not in the English Language, and earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Radford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Desperate Journey
Writer
Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me
Sé stesso
The Music of Silence
Director
Raccontare Venezia
Self
Elsa & Fred
Screenplay
The Mule
Director
Discovering Hamlet
Self
Michel Petrucciani
Screenplay
Flawless
Director
The Merchant of Venice
Screenplay
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Director
Addicted to the Stars
Director
Dancing at the Blue Iguana
Director
B. Monkey
Director
The Postman
Director
Homicide: Life on the Street
Director
White Mischief
Director
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Screenplay
Another Time, Another Place
Director
Van Morrison in Ireland
Director
The Last Stronghold of the Pure Gospel
Producer
Love Is Like a Violin
Producer
The Oscars
Self
Sweethearts
Writer