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Michael Radford
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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 trans…
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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.
Filmography
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2025
Desperate Journey
Movie Writer
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2023
Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me
Movie Sé stesso
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2017
The Music of Silence
Movie Director
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2017
Raccontare Venezia
Movie Self
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2014
Elsa & Fred
Movie Screenplay
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2013
The Mule
Movie Director
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2011
Discovering Hamlet
Movie Self
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2011
Michel Petrucciani
Movie Screenplay
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2007
Flawless
Movie Director
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2004
The Merchant of Venice
Movie Director
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2002
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Movie Director
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2002
Addicted to the Stars
Movie Director
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2001
Dancing at the Blue Iguana
Movie Director
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1999
B. Monkey
Movie Director
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1994
The Postman
Movie Director
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1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
TV show Director
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1987
White Mischief
Movie Director
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1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Movie Screenplay
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1983
Another Time, Another Place
Movie Screenplay
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1981
Van Morrison in Ireland
Movie Director
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1980
The White Bird Passes
Movie Director
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1979
The Last Stronghold of the Pure Gospel
Movie Producer
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1977
Love Is Like a Violin
Movie Producer
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1953
The Oscars
TV show Self
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Sweethearts
Movie Writer
