FILM DIRECTOR

Michael Radford

1946 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Radford is the 436th most popular film director (up from 471st in 2019), the 309th most popular biography from India (down from 300th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Indian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Michael Radford ranks 436 out of 2,041. Before him are Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Zack Snyder, Harold Prince, Walter Lantz, Andrew V. McLaglen, and Assi Dayan. After him are Yves Boisset, Guy Hamilton, Kon Ichikawa, Jacques Tourneur, Wolfgang Reitherman, and Alf Sjöberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Michael Radford ranks 227. Before him are Ahmad al-Tayyeb, Maria Bethânia, Miguel Reina, Sven Nordqvist, Ruth Fuchs, and Tom Savini. After him are Matthieu Ricard, André Dussollier, Eduardo Camaño, Billy Preston, Antony Beevor, and Toktar Aubakirov.

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In India

Among people born in India, Michael Radford ranks 309 out of 1,861. Before him are Sankardev (1449), Guru Amar Das (1479), Abdul Karim (1863), Kuvempu (1904), Jaya Bachchan (1948), and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887). After him are Shantanu (null), C. Rajagopalachari (1878), Karamchand Gandhi (1822), Gupta (240), Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856), and Phoolan Devi (1963).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Michael Radford ranks 4. Before him are Satyajit Ray (1921), Mahesh Bhatt (1948), and M. Night Shyamalan (1970). After him are Lindsay Anderson (1923), B. R. Chopra (1914), Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), Shyam Benegal (1934), Dara Singh (1928), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), S. Shankar (1963), and Guru Dutt (1925).

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