Emerging from Leicester and shaped by education at Gresham’s School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered the industry as an assistant director on films such as Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment and if… before moving into television drama for the BBC. His first feature, the noir spoof Gumshoe (1971), gave way to a string of acclaimed 1980s titles, notably My Beautiful Laundrette, Prick U… Read more
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Known for High Fidelity 2000 Philomena 2013 Florence Foster Jenkins 2016 The Queen 2006 Features 72 ★ 7.3 Philomena 2013
★ 7.1 High Fidelity 2000
Series ★ 7.4 The Loudest Voice 2019
Series ★ 7.1 A Very English Scandal 2018
★ 6.9 The Queen 2006
★ 6.9 Victoria & Abdul 2017
★ 9 Mr Jolly Lives Next Door 1988
★ 6.9 Dirty Pretty Things 2002
Series ★ 7.4 The Comic Strip Presents... 1982
Series ★ 6.9 Quiz 2020
★ 6.9 Fail Safe 2000
Series ★ 6.9 State of the Union 2019
★ 10 Long Distance Information 1979
★ 10 Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1978
★ 10 Last Summer 1977
★ 9 Early Struggles 1976
Series ★ 7.1 Screen Two 1985
Series ★ 7.2 Brian and Maggie 2025
★ 7.2 Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema 1995
★ 7.5 Going Gently 1981
★ 7.5 Sunset Across the Bay 1975
★ 8 Le court des grands 2005
Series ★ 7 ITV Playhouse 1967
Series ★ 7 BBC2 Play of the Week 1977
Series ★ 7 Playhouse 1974
★ 6.8 The Deal 2003
★ 6.7 Walter and June 1983
★ 6.5 Doris and Doreen 1978
★ 6 Song of Experience 1986
Series ★ 6.3 Follyfoot 1971
Series ★ 6.6 Play for Today 1970
★ 6.5 Bloody Kids 1980
★ 5 Black Christmas 1977
★ 5.3 One Fine Day 1979
★ 6.7 Prick Up Your Ears 1987
★ 5.5 A Day Out 1972
★ 5.9 Walter 1982
★ 5.3 Saigon: Year of the Cat 1983
★ 6.2 Three Men in a Boat 1975
★ 6.7 Mrs. Henderson Presents 2005
★ 6.7 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985
★ 6.4 Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight 2013
★ 6.3 Liam 2001
★ 6.7 Florence Foster Jenkins 2016
★ 6.5 The Snapper 1993
★ 6.2 Gumshoe 1971
★ 6.4 The Van 1996
★ 5.7 Sammy and Rosie Get Laid 1987
★ 6.5 The Lost King 2022
★ 6.5 The Hit 1984
★ 6.5 The Grifters 1990
★ 6 The Hi-Lo Country 1998
Series ★ 6.1 The Regime 2024
★ 6.3 Hero 1992
★ 6.1 Chéri 2009
★ 5.8 Mary Reilly 1996
★ 5.9 Tamara Drewe 2010
★ 5.2 Lay the Favorite 2012
The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel 1984
Second City Firsts 1973
Series Second City Firsts 1973
Sporting Scenes 1973
Series Sporting Scenes 1973
Series Parkin's Patch 1969
Series Tom Grattan's War 1968
Short films 7 ★ 7 The Burning 1968
★ 7 A Visit from Miss Prothero 1978
★ 5 Henri Langlois vu par... 2014
★ 5.7 The Route V50 2004
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders) 1986
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