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 Adapte
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Known for
Nineteen Eighty-FourScreenplay, Director6.8
The PostmanDirector, Screenplay7.9
FlawlessDirector6.8
The Merchant of VeniceScreenplay, Director6.8
Homicide: Life on the StreetDirector8.1
Elsa & FredScreenplay, Director6.0
The Music of SilenceDirector, Writer7.0
B. MonkeyDirector5.8
Dancing at the Blue IguanaDirector, Writer5.4
White MischiefDirector, Screenplay6.1
Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes MeSé stesso7.7
The MuleDirector, Screenplay5.3
Filmography
- TBASweetheartsFilm: Writer
- 2025Desperate JourneyFilm: Writer
- 2023Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes MeFilm: Sé stesso
- 2017The Music of SilenceFilm: Director, Writer
- 2014Elsa & FredFilm: Screenplay, Director
- 2013The MuleFilm: Director, Screenplay
- 2011Michel PetruccianiFilm: Screenplay, Director
- 2007FlawlessFilm: Director
- 2004The Merchant of VeniceFilm: Screenplay, Director
- 2002Ten Minutes Older: The CelloFilm: Director, Screenplay
- 2002Addicted to the StarsFilm: Director
- 2001Dancing at the Blue IguanaFilm: Director, Writer
- 1999B. MonkeyFilm: Director
- 1994The PostmanFilm: Director, Screenplay
- 1993Homicide: Life on the StreetSeries: Director (1 episode)
- 1987White MischiefFilm: Director, Screenplay
- 1984Nineteen Eighty-FourFilm: Screenplay, Director
- 1983Another Time, Another PlaceFilm: Director, Screenplay
- 1981Van Morrison in IrelandFilm: Director
- 1980The White Bird PassesFilm: Director, Writer
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