Michael Radford

Michael James Radford born 24 February 1946 is an Indianborn 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 bestknown credits include the 1984 film adaptation of George Orwells Nineteen EightyFour 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 Italianlanguage 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Radford licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia