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Michael Radford (b. 1946)

Birthplace:
New Delhi, India

Born:
February 24, 1946

Biography from TheMovieDB

Michael James Radford (born 24 February 1946) is an Indian-born 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.

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Film Production

Co-Producer:
2013  The Mule

Director:
1981  Van Morrison in Ireland
1983  Another Time, Another Place
1984  Nineteen Eighty-Four
1987  White Mischief
1994  The Postman
1999  B. Monkey
2001  Dancing at the Blue Iguana
2002  Addicted to the Stars
2002  Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2004  The Merchant of Venice
2007  Flawless
2011  Michel Petrucciani
2013  The Mule
2014  Elsa & Fred
2017  The Music of Silence

Producer:
1977  Love Is Like a Violin
1981  Van Morrison in Ireland
1983  Another Time, Another Place
1984  Nineteen Eighty-Four
1987  White Mischief
1994  The Postman
1999  B. Monkey
2001  Dancing at the Blue Iguana
2002  Addicted to the Stars
2002  Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2004  The Merchant of Venice
2007  Flawless
2011  Michel Petrucciani
2013  The Mule
2014  Elsa & Fred
2017  The Music of Silence

Scenario Writer:
1977  Love Is Like a Violin
1981  Van Morrison in Ireland
1983  Another Time, Another Place
1984  Nineteen Eighty-Four
1987  White Mischief
1994  The Postman
1999  B. Monkey
2001  Dancing at the Blue Iguana
2002  Addicted to the Stars
2002  Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2004  The Merchant of Venice
2007  Flawless
2011  Michel Petrucciani
2013  The Mule
2014  Elsa & Fred
2017  The Music of Silence

Screenplay:
1977  Love Is Like a Violin
1981  Van Morrison in Ireland
1983  Another Time, Another Place
1984  Nineteen Eighty-Four
1987  White Mischief
1994  The Postman
1999  B. Monkey
2001  Dancing at the Blue Iguana
2002  Addicted to the Stars
2002  Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2004  The Merchant of Venice
2007  Flawless
2011  Michel Petrucciani
2013  The Mule
2014  Elsa & Fred
2017  The Music of Silence

Writer:
1977  Love Is Like a Violin
1981  Van Morrison in Ireland
1983  Another Time, Another Place
1984  Nineteen Eighty-Four
1987  White Mischief
1994  The Postman
1999  B. Monkey
2001  Dancing at the Blue Iguana
2002  Addicted to the Stars
2002  Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2004  The Merchant of Venice
2007  Flawless
2011  Michel Petrucciani
2013  The Mule
2014  Elsa & Fred
2017  The Music of Silence
????  Desperate Journey
????  Sweethearts

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TV Production

Director:
1993  Homicide: Life on the Street

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