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Michael Radford

Director, Writer, Producer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn February 24, 1946 (79 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Flawless
  • The Music of Silence

Known For

  • The Postman
  • 1984
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • Flawless
  • Dancing at the Blue Iguana
  • B. Monkey
  • White Mischief
  • The Music of Silence
  • Elsa & Fred
  • The Mule
  • Homicide: Life on the Street
  • Another Time, Another Place
  • Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
  • Michel Petrucciani
  • Desperate Journey
  • Everyman

Michael Radford Filmography

2025
2017
2014
Elsa & Fred · as Screenplay
2013
The Mule · as Screenplay
2011
Michel Petrucciani · as Screenplay
2004
The Merchant of Venice · as Screenplay
2002
2000
1994
The Postman · as Screenplay
1987
White Mischief · as Screenplay
1984
1984 · as Screenplay
1983

2013
The Mule · as Co-Producer
2000
1977
Everyman (TV Series)

2023
2002
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello · as Additional Voice Over (segment: Addicted To The Stars)
1969
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969) (TV Series) · as Male Hiker
1967

2022
2017
1996
Whoever That Fails (TV Series) · as Self
1996
E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series) · as Self - Director, 'dancing At The Blue Iguana'
1996
The 68th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Nominee
1991
Movie Days (TV Series) · as Self
1991
Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self
1953
The Academy Awards (TV Series) · as Self

1998
B. Monkey · as Scenario Writer

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