Person
Michael Foot
Acting · 1913–2010 · Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Biography
Michael Foot was a British politician and served as the leader of the Labour Party from 1980-1983. He was a pacifist and a supporter of CND who studied philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford. As a documentary screenwriter for the war effort in the 1940s, he worked alongside Frank Owen under the joint pseudonym of Michael Frank and was known for Young Veteran (1940), Yellow Caesar (1941). He was married to documentary filmmaker Jill Craigie.
Known for
Panorama
1953
Question Time
Himself - Panellist
Omnibus
1967
World in Action
1963
One Pair of Eyes
1967
Rough Justice
Self
Labour's Old Romantic: A Film Portrait of Michael Foot
Self
The Wilderness Years
Self
Yellow Caesar
Screenplay
From Beaconsfield to Baghdad
Self (Archive Footage)
Filmography
- 2020Independent Miss CraigieHimself (Archive Footage)
- 2007From Beaconsfield to BaghdadSelf (Archive Footage)
- 2004In Search of Tony BlairSelf (Archive Footage)
- 2001Cabinet ConfidentialSelf (archive footage)
- 1997Labour's Old Romantic: A Film Portrait of Michael FootSelf
- 1995The Wilderness YearsSelf
- 1995Two Hours from LondonHimself
- 1981Rough JusticeSelf
- 1979Question TimeHimself - Panellist
- 1967Omnibus
- 1967One Pair of Eyes
- 1963World in Action
- 1953Panorama
- 1941Yellow CaesarScreenplay
- 1940Young VeteranCommentator
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