Michael Radford

Michael Radford

  • Birthday: 1946-02-24
  • Place of birth: New Delhi, India

Biography

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.

Filmography

Production

B. Monkey

1999

As Director

The Postman

1994

As Director

The Merchant of Venice

2004

As Director

Nineteen Eighty-Four

1984

As Director

Flawless

2007

As Director

White Mischief

1987

As Director

The Mule

2013

As Director

Elsa & Fred

2014

As Director

Van Morrison in Ireland

1981

As Director

The Music of Silence

2017

As Director

Michel Petrucciani

2011

As Director

The Mule

2013

As Co-Producer

B. Monkey

1999

As Scenario Writer

The Merchant of Venice

2004

As Screenplay

Nineteen Eighty-Four

1984

As Screenplay

White Mischief

1987

As Screenplay

Another Time, Another Place

1983

As Screenplay

Michel Petrucciani

2011

As Screenplay

The Music of Silence

2017

As Writer

The Postman

1994

As Screenplay

The Mule

2013

As Screenplay

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

2002

As Screenplay

Elsa & Fred

2014

As Screenplay

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