Michael Radford

Michael Radford (born February 24, 1946 in New Delhi, India to a British father and Austrian mother) is an English film director and screenwriter. Radford was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford. After teaching for a few years, he went to the National Film and Television School, becoming a student there in its inaugural year. Between 1976 and 1982 Radford worked as a documentary film maker making films mostly for the BBC. These included films on the following subjects; Scottish islanders on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides who believe in the literal truth of the Bible, 'The Last Stronghold of the Pure Gospel', the soprano Isobel Buchanan, 'La Belle Isobel', the singer songwriter Van Morrison, 'Van Morrison in Ireland', and the self-explanatory 'The Making of The Pirates of Penzanze'. On the last two of these Radford worked with the cinematographer Roger Deakins, who would later shoot two of Radford's feature films; 1984 and White Mischief. ... full article at wikipedia