Biography
Roger Michell (5 June 1956 – 22 September 2021) was a South African-born British theatre, television, and film director. He was best known for directing films such as Notting Hill and Venus, as well as the 1995 made-for-television film Persuasion. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Michell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s)
2022
Director
Elizabeth is an archive-based documentary film about the Queen. A celebration. A truly cinematic mystery-tour up and down the decades: poetic, funny, ...
The Duke
2021
Director
In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains...
Mood Music
2020
Director
In a top London recording studio, Cat, a young songwriter, her producer Bernard, their lawyers and psychotherapists go to battle over who owns a hit s...
Blackbird
2019
Director
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen togeth...
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
Director
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen togeth...
My Cousin Rachel
2017
Director, Adaptation, Screenplay
A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicat...
National Theatre Live: Consent
2017
Director
Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? Friends take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems ...
Birthday
2015
Director
Sky Arts’ adaptation of Joe Penhall’s 2012 Royal Court play Birthday sees Mangan reprise the role of Ed who endures a caesarian birth with his high-fl...
Le Week-End
2013
Director
Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in thei...
Hyde Park on Hudson
2012
Director, Producer
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the ...
Morning Glory
2010
Director
A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently fa...
Venus
2006
Director
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and p...
Enduring Love
2004
Director
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a...
Burst
2004
as Maxwell's Fan 2
A short film about fictional actor Maxwell McCourtney, featuring the cast and crew of 'Enduring Love'.
The Mother
2003
Director
A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
Changing Lanes
2002
Director
A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two pe...
Notting Hill
1999
Director
London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romanc...
Titanic Town
1998
Director
Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally sho...
Michael Redgrave: My Father
1997
Director
Corin Redgrave presents a portrait of his father, Michael Redgrave, exploring his personality, nature and what he was like as a father. He uses family...
My Night with Reg
1997
Director
Six gay friends discuss love, friendship and infidelity over the course of three significant evenings
Persuasion
1995
Director
Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea capt...
I Am Frigid...Why?
1972
Production Manager
Sultry Sandra Julien stars as a teenage virgin who is traumatized after being raped by her 2 "friends", a young man and his sister, leaving her with n...