Charles Sturridge is the recipient of a BAFTA Children's Award and four BAFTA TV Awards.
12 Facts About Charles Sturridge
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Charles Sturridge has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Charles Sturridge was educated at Stonyhurst College and University College, Oxford.
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Charles Sturridge appeared in Zigger Zagger in 1967 with the National Youth Theatre, played Markland in Lindsay Anderson's film if.
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Charles Sturridge scripted a film version of J G Farrell's Troubles made for London Weekend Television in 1988 and directed by Christopher Morahan.
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Since then the films Charles Sturridge has directed have included Runners, A Handful of Dust, Where Angels Fear to Tread, and FairyTale: A True Story, based on the Cottingley Fairies story which won the BAFTA for Best Children's film 1998.
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Charles Sturridge wrote and directed Lassie, a remake of Eric Knight's children's story.
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Charles Sturridge directed the black-and-white segment "La Forza del Destino" in the anthology film Aria.
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In 2000, he formed Firstsight Films whose first production was an account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition, which Charles Sturridge wrote and directed.
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Charles Sturridge contributed to Beckett on Film, part of a collaborative effort to film all of Samuel Beckett's plays with Anthony Minghella, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and Neil Jordan and Patricia Rozema.
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In 2011, Charles Sturridge directed a seven-minute short film, "Astonish Me", written by Stephen Poliakoff to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the World Wildlife Fund.
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In 2007, Charles Sturridge joined the board of the Directors and Producers Rights Society, which, in 2008, widened its responsibilities and changed its name to Directors UK.