Michael Radford

Michael Radford (b. 1946, New Delhi) is a highlyregarded filmmaker of the middle generation. He graduated from Worcester College, Oxford, and then from the National Film and Television School after having taught in Edinburgh for a number of years. He started out in film as a documentarist. He shot his first dramatic film, a television adaptation of Jessie Kesson's The White Bird Passes (1980), for BBC Scotland. He began to make a name for himself with his feature debut Another Time, Another Place (1983), chosen for the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes. Other films: an adaptation of George Orwell's novel 1984 (1984), a drama filmed in the USA, White Mischief (1987), the biographical movie Il postino (1994), which took the BAFTA for Best Director and Best Foreign Film, B. Monkey (1998), Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000), a sci-fi contribution to the film Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002), and William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice (2004).

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