Michael James Radford was born on 24 February 1946 and is an English film director and screenwriter.
10 Facts About Michael Radford
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Michael Radford began his career as a documentary director and television comedy writer before transitioning into features in the early 1980s.
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Michael Radford was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford.
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Between 1976 and 1982, Michael Radford worked as a documentary film maker, mostly on projects for the BBC, covering subjects such as Scottish islanders on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides who believe in the literal truth of the Bible: The Last Stronghold of the Pure Gospel; the soprano Isobel Buchanan: La Belle Isobel; the singer songwriter Van Morrison: Van Morrison in Ireland; and the self-explanatory The Making of The Pirates of Penzance.
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Michael Radford came to international attention with Nineteen Eighty-Four, his adaptation of George Orwell's novel 1984, starring John Hurt as Winston Smith, and in which Richard Burton gave his final film performance.
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Michael Radford again wrote the screenplay, an adaptation of the novel by James Fox called White Mischief.
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Michael Radford is most widely known as the writer and director of the 1994 film Il Postino: The Postman, which Radford adapted from the novel Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skarmeta.
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The film won many international film awards including the 'Best Film Not in the English Language' BAFTA for Michael Radford, who was nominated for the Best Director and Adapted Screenplay Academy Awards.
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Michael Radford adapted the William Shakespeare play, and the film stars Al Pacino as Shylock and Jeremy Irons as Antonio.
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Michael Radford directed his first play in 2000, a West End production of The Seven Year Itch.