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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: November 14, 1950 in New Delhi, India Biography:Filmmaker "Michael Radford" is best known for helming the internationally praised and Oscar-nominated "Il Postino" (1994), the story of the friendship between an earnest local postman (the late "Massimo Troisi", who died of a congenital heart ailment the day after filming wrapped) and the exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda ("Philippe Noiret").
Of British and Austrian heritage, Radford was born and raised in India. He traveled to England as a young man to study philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford and worked as a teacher and an actor after graduating. In 1971, he joined the charter class at the newly established National Film School; upon graduating, he became a documentary filmmaker. His two most famous early films were The Madonna and the Volcano (1979) and "Van Morrison in Ireland" (1981); he made documentaries until 1983, when he switched to fiction by scripting and directing the WWII-era... Full Biography
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