Biography
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-la...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me
2023
as Sé stesso
The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before becoming ...
The Music of Silence
2017
Director, Writer
Born with a serious eye condition that eventually leads to his blindness, Bocelli nevertheless rises above the challenges, driven by great ambitions t...
Raccontare Venezia
2017
as Self
Elsa & Fred
2014
Screenplay, Director
After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friendship with his eccentric 74-year-old neighbour Elsa...
The Mule
2013
Director, Co-Producer, Screenplay
A soldier protects a mule during the Spanish Civil War.
Discovering Hamlet
2011
as Self
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great trag...
Michel Petrucciani
2011
Screenplay, Director
A documentary on the late French jazz pianist.
Flawless
2007
Director
A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.
The Merchant of Venice
2004
Director, Screenplay
Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heir...
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2002
Director, Screenplay
Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short ...
Addicted to the Stars
2002
Director
"Addicted to the Stars" tells the story of an astronaut (Daniel Craig) completing an eighty light-year journey and returning to Earth in the year 2146...
Dancing at the Blue Iguana
2001
Director, Writer, Producer
At the Blue Iguana, L.A.'s most notorious strip club, the lives of five exotic dancers converge, clash and ultimately bond over the course of one week...
B. Monkey
1999
Director, Scenario Writer
When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire ...
The Postman
1994
Director, Screenplay
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
White Mischief
1987
Director, Screenplay
A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the...
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984
Director, Screenplay
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Another Time, Another Place
1983
Director, Screenplay
Set in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilit...
Van Morrison in Ireland
1981
Director
The first official video by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, showing footage of the band whilst touring in Ireland and images of Belfast...
Love Is Like a Violin
1977
Producer
Shows the Common Stock Theatre Company working on a project involving old people living in the London Borough of Hammersmith. By direct contact with e...
Desperate Journey
N/A
Writer
based on the true story of Freddie Knoller, a young man fleeing Vienna during the rise of Nazi Germany, set in 1940s Paris, unfolding against the vibr...
Sweethearts
N/A
Writer
The story of Hollywood movie stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy and their love affair during the 1930s.