Michael Radford
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 24, 1946, New Delhi, India
- Movies
- 22
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.
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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2023 | Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me | Sé stesso |
| 2017 | Raccontare Venezia | Self |
| 2011 | Discovering Hamlet | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2025 | Desperate Journey | Writer |
| 2017 | The Music of Silence | Director, Writer |
| 2014 | Elsa & Fred | Screenplay, Director |
| 2013 | The Mule | Director, Screenplay |
| 2011 | Michel Petrucciani | Screenplay, Director |
| 2007 | Flawless | Director |
| 2004 | The Merchant of Venice | Director, Screenplay |
| 2002 | Ten Minutes Older: The Cello | Director, Screenplay |
| 2002 | Addicted to the Stars | Director |
| 2001 | Dancing at the Blue Iguana | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1999 | B. Monkey | Director |
| 1994 | The Postman | Director, Screenplay |
| 1987 | White Mischief | Director, Screenplay |
| 1984 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Director, Screenplay |
| 1983 | Another Time, Another Place | Director, Screenplay |
| 1981 | Van Morrison in Ireland | Director |
| 1980 | The White Bird Passes | Director, Writer |
| 1979 | The Last Stronghold of the Pure Gospel | Producer |
| 1977 | Love Is Like a Violin | Producer |
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