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Michael Radford

Highest Rated: 94% The Postman (1994)

Lowest Rated: 0% The Music of Silence (2017)

Birthday: Feb 24, 1946

Birthplace: New Delhi, India

Born in New Delhi to an English father and Australian mother, Radford was raised in India. He moved to England to attend Oxford and after graduating worked briefly as an actor and a teacher. In 1971, he was among the first twenty-five students to enroll at the National Film School. Radford began as a documentary filmmaker. His most notable efforts include "The Madonna and the Volcano" (1979) and "Van Morrison in Ireland" (1981). Radford made his screenwriting debut and also directed the remake of "Another Time, Another Place" (1983). He received mixed reviews for his adaptation of George Orwell's "1984" (1984), in which Richard Burton gave his last screen performance. Radford had somewhat better luck with "White Mischief" (1987), a fictional retelling of a famous murder in colonial Kenya that featured Joss Ackland, Charles Dance and Greta Scacchi. He received some of his best notices to date for "Il Postino (The Postman)" (1994), the lyrical drama that charts the relationship between Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (Phillipe Noiret) and the local fisherman (Massimo Troisi in his final film appearance) he hires as his personal mailman.

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Highest-Rated Movies

94% 94% The Postman
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80% 55% White Mischief
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75% 71% 1984
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72% 72% The Merchant of Venice
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60% 54% B. Monkey
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56% 55% Flawless
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33% 50% Elsa & Fred
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22% 42% Dancing at the Blue Iguana
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0% 77% The Music of Silence Watchlist
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Filmography

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Laggiù qualcuno mi ama 2023 Self The Music of Silence 0% 77% 2017 Director, Screenwriter Elsa & Fred 33% 50% 2014 Director, Screenwriter The Mule 57% 2013 Director, Screenwriter Michel Petrucciani: Body and Soul 64% 2011 Director, Writer Flawless 56% 55% 2007 Director The Merchant of Venice 72% 72% 2004 Director, Screenwriter Ten Minutes Older: The Cello 2002 Director, Writer Dancing at the Blue Iguana 22% 42% 2000 Director, Screenwriter, Producer B. Monkey 60% 54% 1998 Director, Writer The Postman 94% 94% 1994 Director, Writer White Mischief 80% 55% 1987 Director 1984 75% 71% 1984 Director, Screenwriter Another Time, Another Place 40% 1983 Director The White Bird Passes 1980 Director, Screenwriter
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