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Iain Softley
London, England, UK
Iain Declan Softley (born November 30, 1956) is an English film director. He was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing, where he played the part of Thomas Becket in its 1975 pr…
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Iain Declan Softley (born November 30, 1956) is an English film director. He was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing, where he played the part of Thomas Becket in its 1975 production of T. S. Eliot's play, Murder in the Cathedral, and Queens' College, Cambridge. His movies include the Beatles film Backbeat (1994), Hackers (1995), The Wings of the Dove (1997), K-PAX (2001), The Skeleton Key (2005) and Inkheart (2008). Softley also has been developing an adaptation of Stephen Gallagher's novel The Boat House for Dimension Films, set in the English Lake District. He previously attempted to film the book in 1999, with Milla Jovovich in the lead role of a haunted and driven Russian émigré.
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2023
The Shepherd
Movie Director
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2015
Curve
Movie Director
- 2015
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2015
The Outcast
TV show Director
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2013
Trap for Cinderella
Movie Director
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2012
Playhouse Presents
TV show Director
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2008
Inkheart
Movie Director
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2005
The Skeleton Key
Movie Director
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2001
K-PAX
Movie Director
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2001
Toni Braxton: From Toni with Love... The Video Collection
Movie Director
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1997
The Wings of the Dove
Movie Director
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1995
Hackers
Movie Director
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1994
Backbeat
Movie Screenplay
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Come and Get Me
Movie Executive Producer
