Mike Newell

Mike Newell

1942-03-28 St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK 52 Credits

Biography

Michael Cormac "Mike" Newell (born 28 March 1942) is an English director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television. After the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005, Newell became the third most commercially successful British director in recent years, behind Christopher Nolan and David Yates, as confirmed by the UK Film Council in their 2010 Statistical Yearbook. Newell won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction in 1994 for Four Weddings and a Funeral and the...

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The Spirit of 1926

The Spirit of 1926

2022

Director

Directing

In 1926 Janet ‘Nettie’ Harbison crafted what would become the most valuable bottle of wine or spirit ever sold at auction.

578: Magnum

578: Magnum

2022

Script Consultant

6.0

A container truck driver, Hùng, lives an idyllic life with his little daughter, An. The father and daughter become the closest companions in every jou...

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

2022

as Self

7.3
Acting

An enchanting making-of story told through all-new in-depth interviews and cast conversations, inviting fans on a magical first-person journey through...

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding

2019

Director

7.2
Directing

You’re invited to the wedding of the year, as the original cast of Four Weddings and a Funeral reunite in this one-off sequel. Twenty-five years after...

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

2018

Director

7.4
Directing

Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when sh...

Great Expectations

Great Expectations

2012

Director, Executive Producer

6.4
Directing Producing

Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's Uncle Pumblechook to find a boy ...

Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey

Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey

2011

as Self

7.6
Acting

Feature-length documentary chronicling Charlton Heston's life while filming Ben Hur. Includes behind-the-scenes content and home-movie footage from th...

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

2010

Director

6.3
Directing

A rogue prince reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable ...

Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera

2007

Director

6.6
Directing

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on t...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2005

Director

7.8
Directing

When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Tri...

Mona Lisa Smile

Mona Lisa Smile

2003

Director

6.9
Directing

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront...

Traffic

Traffic

2000

Executive Producer

7.1
Producing

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Poli...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

2000

Director

5.6
Directing

First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Needing emotional ...

High Fidelity

High Fidelity

2000

Executive Producer

7.1
Producing

After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil

1999

Director

5.1
Directing

A top secret mission for French Intelligence brings Indy to Istanbul during the first world war. Exploring the city's dark and dangerous streets, he i...

Pushing Tin

Pushing Tin

1999

Director

5.9
Directing

Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.

Best Laid Plans

Best Laid Plans

1999

Executive Producer

5.7
Producing

Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn't really...

200 Cigarettes

200 Cigarettes

1999

Executive Producer

5.8
Producing

In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years ...

Donnie Brasco

Donnie Brasco

1997

Director

7.5
Directing

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

An Awfully Big Adventure

An Awfully Big Adventure

1995

Director

6.7
Directing

Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of ...

At Sundance

At Sundance

1995

as Self

5.5
Acting

A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg A...

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral

1994

Director

6.8
Directing

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

Into the West

Into the West

1992

Director

6.4
Directing

Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.

Enchanted April

Enchanted April

1991

Director

6.8
Directing

When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for ...

Common Ground

Common Ground

1990

Director

10.0
Directing

Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focus...

Soursweet

Soursweet

1988

Director

5.3
Directing

Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen w...

Amazing Grace and Chuck

Amazing Grace and Chuck

1987

Director

5.7
Directing

Average American boy Chuck Murdock goes on a school outing to a nuclear weapons facility, where he learns about the destructive power that sits at the...

The Good Father

The Good Father

1985

Director

5.7
Directing

Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so ...

Dance with a Stranger

Dance with a Stranger

1985

Director

6.0
Directing

Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for Da...

Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation

1983

Director

7.5
Directing

A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaig...

Blood Feud

Blood Feud

1983

Director

Directing

Made for TV movie about Bobby Kennedy's campaign to bring Jimmy Hoffa to justice.

Bad Blood

Bad Blood

1982

Director

6.7
Directing

During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.

Little Girls Don't

1981

Director

Directing

Little Girls Don't" is the tale of two girls, Sheryl and Abbey who have been inseparable friends since childhood despite coming from very different ba...

The Awakening

The Awakening

1980

Director

5.4
Directing

When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.

Destiny

Destiny

1978

Director

Directing

A small town shopkeeper is conned into standing for an extreme right-wing party at a by-election, and later discovers that it's financed by the corpor...

Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat

Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat

1978

Director

Directing

Behind the façade of form-filling at the Department of Something-or-Other, careers fall and rise at the drop of an apostrophe. Will HIB's double negat...

The Mayor's Charity

The Mayor's Charity

1977

Director

Directing

Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as Att...

The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask

1977

Director

6.4
Directing

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical K...

Buffet

Buffet

1976

Director

Directing

A quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie's nerves are taking a hammering lately; the economy is in dire trouble and who can blame a busi...

Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration

Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration

1976

Director

Directing

David lives with a woman nearly twice his age, who decides to make him her fantasy child. It is a role our young hero cannot resist, especially when D...

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

1976

Director

10.0
Directing

A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.

Brassneck

Brassneck

1975

Director

Directing

Through the story of a single family, Brassneck traces a history that parallels the Labour Party's advent to power in 1945 through to the property spe...

Mrs. Acland's Ghosts

Mrs. Acland's Ghosts

1975

Director

Directing

Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland 's ghosts begin to take over Mr Mockler 's life.

The Gift of Friendship

The Gift of Friendship

1974

Director

Directing

Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor.

The Childhood Friend

The Childhood Friend

1974

Director

6.0
Directing

On holiday, with his family, nothing to do and his wife ill, Sasha (Alexander) is only too pleased to meet again the girl he loved at 17.

Ms or Jill and Jack

1974

Director

Directing

Sophisticated executive out with pouty bit of goods from the suburbs.

Just Your Luck

1972

Director

Directing

When Alison unexpectedly falls pregnant after a brief encounter with Alex (David Hayman's first TV role) they decide to marry. The joining of two seem...

Not Counting the Savages

1972

Director

Directing

Directed by Mike Newell.

The Visitors

1968

Director

Directing

good Samaritan who gives a stranded family a lift off the road, finds his life gets complicated when they move in on him.

None of That

1967

Director

Directing

Elizabeth Cane arrives in Mexico and starts to take an interest in a bull fighter, but he can find only contempt for this refined American woman and w...

Comedy Workshop: Love and Maud Carver

1964

Director

Directing

Maud has two men in her life - George and Errol. In an effort to decide which boyfriend to keep, she visits a clairvoyant who tells her that her ideal...

The Bitter End

The Bitter End

N/A

Director

Directing

Telling the story of the final years of the woman who married King Edward VIII and broke up the monarchy.