- Michael Radford est né le 24 février 1946 à New Delhi, British India [aujourd'hui India]. Il est réalisateur et scénariste. Il est connu pour Le facteur (1994), 1984 (1984) et Le Marchand de Venise (2004). Il est marié avec Emma Tweed. Lui et Emma Tweed ont deux enfants. Il a été marié avec Iseult Teran.
- Conjoints(es)Iseult Teran(4 août 1990 - 1997) (1 enfant)Emma Tweed(? - present) (2 enfants)
- Directed one Oscar nominated performance: Massimo Troisi in Le facteur (1994).
- Educated at Oxford University, England, UK
- Speaks fluent Spanish, French, Italian, English and some Mandarin.
- Worked briefly as a teacher.
- Studied Directing at the UK's National Film and Television School.
- [on his influences] The two real influences on cinema when I was growing up were the French New Wave and the Czech New Wave. I was fortunate to get to know and become friendly with Jirí Menzel, Ivan Passer and to a certain extent Milos Forman. It was a great influence on me. There was a certain part of that world I wasn't so interested in, the sort of magical realism cinema. But I really loved Czech humor.
- [on White Mischief (1987)] People liked it. It got caught up in the politics of Hollywood and ended up not being properly distributed and making any money. And it lost a lot of money for the backers, so I became persona non grata for a bit as a director does when a film loses money. And I found it very difficult. So I just went off, and I went to live in France for a bit, and I went to live in Italy, and I realised six years had past and I hadn't done anything! I'd made some money, so was okay financially, but I hadn't done anything and nobody was asking me to. Expect this Italian actor [Massimo Troisi]who would ring me up every three or four months and say come and make a film in Italy, we've got money and everything! And I thought I can't make a film in Italy. And then I suddenly started listening to what he was saying! We've got money! We can do this. We can actually make the picture. So I thought well, he's the only person who was asking me, so why not?
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