Michael Radford

Director · Born 24 February 1946 in New Delhi, India · 8 credits in the Movie Owl catalogue

3 of Michael Radford’s films and series stream in Sweden right now — 3 on Cineasterna and 1 on Prime Video. 2 more are not on any service at the moment. Highest rated available: The Postman (1994) ★ 7.8.

Michael James Radford (born 24 February 1946) is an 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.

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Directing

• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
• Flawless (2007)
• The Merchant of Venice (2004)
• The Postman (1994)
• The Music of Silence (2017)

Writing

• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
• The Merchant of Venice (2004)
• The Music of Silence (2017)

Not streaming in Sweden right now

• Homicide: Life on the Street (1993)
• Elsa & Fred (2014)
• B. Monkey (1999)
• The Oscars (1953)
• White Mischief (1987)
• Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2001)
• Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me (2023)
• The Mule (2013)
• Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
• Another Time, Another Place (1983)
• Michel Petrucciani (2011)
• Desperate Journey (2025)