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'Charles Sturridge' (born June 24, 1951) is an English screenwriter, producer, stage, television and film director.
| Contents |
| Biography |
| Early life |
| Career |
| Personal life |
| Selected filmography |
| Director |
| Actor |
| References |
| External links |
Biography
Early life
Sturridge was born in London, England to Jerome Sturridge and Alyson Bowman Vaughan[1]. He was educated at Stonyhurst College.[2]
Career
Sturridge briefly began his career as an actor. In 1968 he played a junior boy in Lindsay Anderson's film ''if...'' and portrayed the young Edward VII in ''Edward the Seventh''. Directing episodes of ''Coronation Street'', ''Strangers'', ''World in Action'', ''Crown Court'' and ''The Spoils of War'' by his early twenties,[3] he gained international recognition for the eleven part television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's ''Brideshead Revisited''.
Since then he has directed such films as ''A Handful of Dust'', ''A Foreign Field'', ''Where Angels Fear to Tread'', '' based on the Cottingley Fairies controversy, Stephen Poliakoff's ''Runners'', a remake of the children's classic ''Lassie'' and the lyrically sculpted black-and-white segment "La Forza del Destino" from ''Aria''. A film consisting of ten short pieces by a variety of directors including Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman and Julien Temple.
He has continued to produce notable work for television in ''Beckett on Film'', part of a collaborative effort to film all of Samuel Beckett's plays[4] with Anthony Minghella, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Neil Jordan and Patricia Rozema. He also directed the critically-acclaimed miniseries ''Gulliver's Travels'' and the BAFTA Award-winners ''Longitude'' and ''Shackleton''.
Personal life
Sturridge married ''Brideshead Revisited'' actress Phoebe Nicholls on July 6, 1985,[5][1] with whom he has three children.[7] Their eldest son, Tom Sturridge, is also an actor.
Selected filmography
Director
★ 1981: ''Brideshead Revisited
★ 1983: ''Runners''
★ 1987: ''Aria''
★ 1988: ''A Handful of Dust''
★ 1991: ''Where Angels Fear to Tread''
★ 1993: ''A Foreign Field''
★ 1996: ''Gulliver's Travels''
★ 1997: ''
★ 2000: ''Longitude ''
★ 2002: ''Shackleton''
★ 2005: ''Lassie''
★ 2007: ''Brontë''
★ 2008: ''A Great and Terrible Beauty''
Actor
★ 1968: ''if...''
★ 1975: ''Edward the Seventh''
References
1. FilmReference.com
2. isbi.com
3. British Film Institute
4. Library and Archives Canada
5. Ancestry.com
6. FilmReference.com
7. FindArticles.com
External links
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