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Michael Radford
Directing · Born 1946-02-24 · New Delhi, India
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

Homicide: Life on the Street
Director

The Oscars
Self

The Postman
Director

Nineteen Eighty-Four
Screenplay

Flawless
Director

The Merchant of Venice
Director

Desperate Journey
Writer

White Mischief
Director

Elsa & Fred
Screenplay

Dancing at the Blue Iguana
Director
Filmography
- 2025Desperate JourneyWriter
- 2023Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes MeSé stesso
- 2017The Music of SilenceDirector
- 2017Raccontare VeneziaSelf
- 2014Elsa & FredScreenplay
- 2013The MuleDirector
- 2011Discovering HamletSelf
- 2011Michel PetruccianiScreenplay
- 2007FlawlessDirector
- 2004The Merchant of VeniceDirector
- 2002Ten Minutes Older: The CelloDirector
- 2002Addicted to the StarsDirector
- 2001Dancing at the Blue IguanaDirector
- 1999B. MonkeyDirector
- 1994The PostmanDirector
- 1993Homicide: Life on the StreetDirector
- 1987White MischiefDirector
- 1984Nineteen Eighty-FourScreenplay
- 1983Another Time, Another PlaceScreenplay
- 1981Van Morrison in IrelandDirector
- 1979The Last Stronghold of the Pure GospelProducer
- 1977Love Is Like a ViolinProducer
- 1953The OscarsSelf
- —SweetheartsWriter
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