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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Spirit of 1926
2022
Director
In 1926 Janet ‘Nettie’ Harbison crafted what would become the most valuable bottle of wine or spirit ever sold at auction.

578: Magnum
2022
Script Consultant
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
2022
as Self
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
2019
Director
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
2018
Director
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
2012
Director, Executive Producer
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
2011
as Self
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
2010
Director
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
2007
Director
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
2005
Director
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
2003
Director
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
2000
Executive Producer
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
2000
Director
First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Needing emotional ...

High Fidelity
2000
Executive Producer
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
1999
Director
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
1999
Director
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.

Best Laid Plans
1999
Executive Producer
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
1999
Executive Producer
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
1997
Director
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
1995
Director
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
1995
as Self
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
1994
Director
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

Into the West
1992
Director
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
1991
Director
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
1990
Director
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
1988
Director
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
1987
Director
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
1985
Director
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
1985
Director
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
1983
Director
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
1983
Director
Made for TV movie about Bobby Kennedy's campaign to bring Jimmy Hoffa to justice.

Bad Blood
1982
Director
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
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
1980
Director
When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.

Destiny
1978
Director
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
1978
Director
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
1977
Director
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
1977
Director
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
1976
Director
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
1976
Director
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
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
1975
Director
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
1975
Director
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
1974
Director
Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor.

The Childhood Friend
1974
Director
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
Sophisticated executive out with pouty bit of goods from the suburbs.
Just Your Luck
1972
Director
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
Directed by Mike Newell.
The Visitors
1968
Director
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
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
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
N/A
Director
Telling the story of the final years of the woman who married King Edward VIII and broke up the monarchy.