Director
Michael Radford
February 24, 1946 · New Delhi, India
Michael James Radford (born 24 February 1946) is an 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.
Notable work
Often works with
Gregor Fisher
4 titles together
Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Merchant of Venice, White Mischief
John Hurt
2 titles together
Nineteen Eighty-Four, White Mischief
Phyllis Logan
2 titles together
Nineteen Eighty-Four, Another Time, Another Place
Massimo Troisi
2 titles together
The Postman, Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me
Nathaniel Parker
2 titles together
Flawless, Desperate Journey
Joss Ackland
2 titles together
Flawless, White Mischief
Full filmography · 17
Desperate Journey
Writer
2025
Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me
as Sé stesso
20237.7
The Music of Silence
Director and Writer
20177
Elsa & Fred
Director
20145.9
The Mule
Director
20135.3
Michel Petrucciani
Director
2011
Flawless
Director
20076.8
The Merchant of Venice
Director
20046.8
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Director
20026.6
Addicted to the Stars
Director
2002
B. Monkey
Director
19995.8
The Postman
Director
19947.9