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Roger Michell

Roger Michell

Directing

Biography

Roger Michell (5 June 1956 – 22 September 2021) was a South African-born British theatre, television, and film director. He was best known for directing films such as Notting Hill and Venus, as well as the 1995 made-for-television film Persuasion. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Michell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Performance
6.3

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

Performance

1991
The Mother
6.1

A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.

The Mother

2003
Notting Hill
7.3

London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romance challenged by their vastly different worlds.

Notting Hill

1999
Changing Lanes
6.3

A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two complete strangers into vicious adversaries. Their means of destroying each other might be different, but their goals, ultimately, will be the same: Each will systematically try to dismantle the other's life in a reckless effort to reclaim something he has lost.

Changing Lanes

2002
Morning Glory
6.4

A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a show that does not deal with real news stories.

Morning Glory

2010
Persuasion
7.2

In early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two must choose between either putting the past behind them or listening to their hearts.

Persuasion

1995
The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
7.3

Christopher Jefferies's life is turned inside out when one of his tenants disappears without a trace just before Christmas.

The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies

2014
The Buddha of Suburbia
5.9

Karim is 17 years old and lives in a South London suburb with his English mother and Pakistani father, who has become a kind of spiritual guru to his middle-class neighbours. Karim wants to explore his cultural roots, in the hope that he will achieve sexual and racial self-realisation.

The Buddha of Suburbia

1993
My Cousin Rachel
5.7

A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.

My Cousin Rachel

2017
The Duke
7.0

In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. What happened next became the stuff of legend.

The Duke

2021
Enduring Love
5.7

Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas...

Enduring Love

2004
Venus
6.6

Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their give-and-take surprises both Maurice and Jessie as they discover what they don't know about themselves.

Venus

2006
Hyde Park on Hudson
5.3

The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.

Hyde Park on Hudson

2012
Blackbird
6.8

A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.

Blackbird

2019
Le Week-End
6.2

Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.

Le Week-End

2013
Birthday
6.7

Sky Arts’ adaptation of Joe Penhall’s 2012 Royal Court play Birthday sees Mangan reprise the role of Ed who endures a caesarian birth with his high-flying wife by his side.

Birthday

2015
Nothing Like a Dame
6.8

BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.

Nothing Like a Dame

2018
Titanic Town
5.3

Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear she stands up and condemns the murders. Criticising both factions, her call for a ceasefire is interpreted as an attack against the IRA, and as her peace movement takes momentum, she and her family are placed in the frontline.

Titanic Town

1998
Burst
N/A

A short film about fictional actor Maxwell McCourtney, featuring the cast and crew of 'Enduring Love'.

Burst

2004
Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s)
5.6

Elizabeth is an archive-based documentary film about the Queen. A celebration. A truly cinematic mystery-tour up and down the decades: poetic, funny, disobedient, ungovernable, affectionate, inappropriate, mischievous, in awe. Funny. Moving. Different. The Queen as never before.

Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s)

2022