Acting credits
4
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
Michael Radford
Directing
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
0.7
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Movies: 19Series: 2Crew credits: 17
TMDB ID: 28898
IMDb ID: nm0705535
Known for: Directing
Born: February 24, 1946
Age: 79
Place of birth: New Delhi, India
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1953 - 2025
Years active: 73
Average TMDB rating: 6.67
Wikidata: Q470601
Other jobs
Director (12)Screenplay (4)Writer (1)
Biography
Michael James Radford (born 24 February 1946) is an Indian-born 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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Michael Radford.
7.0
Desperate Journey
Writer
2025 Movie
7.8
Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me
as Sé stesso
2023 Movie
7.0
The Music of Silence
Director
2017 Movie
9.0
Raccontare Venezia
as Self
2017 Movie
6.0
Elsa & Fred
Screenplay
2014 Movie
5.3
The Mule
Director
2013 Movie
7.0
Discovering Hamlet
as Self
2011 Movie
6.6
Michel Petrucciani
Screenplay
2011 Movie
6.8
Flawless
Director
2007 Movie
6.8
The Merchant of Venice
Screenplay
2004 Movie
6.7
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Director
2002 Movie
Addicted to the Stars
Director
2002 Movie
5.3
Dancing at the Blue Iguana
Director
2001 Movie
5.8
B. Monkey
Director
1999 Movie
7.9
The Postman
Director
1994 Movie
6.0
White Mischief
Director
1987 Movie
6.8
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Screenplay
1984 Movie
4.3
Another Time, Another Place
Director
1983 Movie
Van Morrison in Ireland
Director
1981 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Michael Radford.
