Michael Ignatieff
Writing
Biography
Michael Grant Ignatieff PC CM (born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian author, academic and former politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011.
Known For
Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.
ScreenPlay
A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.
Onegin
Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows about everything. She orders the right food; she can complain and get results. She's beautiful and has a brilliant career. Is it any wonder that they hate each other's guts?
Antonia and Jane
A political thriller about an American journalist who travels to Africa to hunt down a murderous Colonel and bring him to justice.
Charlie Johnson in the Flames
Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier.
Nineteen Nineteen
A summer evening in Edinburgh, 1776. The ailing philosopher David Hume has an unexpected visitor.