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Michael Radford

Michael James Radford (born 24 February 1946) is an Indian-born 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.


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Born:
Feb 24, 1946 In New Delhi, India
Movie/TV Credits:
4
First Appeared:
In the movie Raccontare Venezia
Latest Project:
Movie Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me 2023-02-23
Known For
Poster of Discovering Hamlet
Poster of The Oscars
Filmography
Movie Raccontare Venezia Self 2025
Movie Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me Sé stesso 2023-02-23
Movie Discovering Hamlet Self 2011-11-01
Series The Oscars Self 1953-03-19