

Michael Radford
Directing
Born: February 24, 1946 (age 80) · New Delhi, India
Highest Rated
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

Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984

The Postman
1994

Flawless
2007

The Merchant of Venice
2004

Homicide: Life on the Street
1993

Elsa & Fred
2014

The Music of Silence
2017

B. Monkey
1999

The Oscars
1953

Dancing at the Blue Iguana
2001

White Mischief
1987

Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me
2023









