
Michael Radford
Directing
- Born
- February 24, 1946 (age 80) · New Delhi, India
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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Known for
Behind the camera20
- 2025Desperate Journey Writer
- 2017The Music of Silence Director, Writer
- 2014Elsa & Fred Screenplay, Director
- 2013The Mule Director, Co-Producer, Screenplay
- 2011Michel Petrucciani Screenplay, Director
- 2007Flawless Director
- 2004The Merchant of Venice Director, Screenplay
- 2002Ten Minutes Older: The Cello Director, Screenplay
- 2002Addicted to the Stars Director
- 2001Dancing at the Blue Iguana











