Charles Sturridge

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Charles Sturridge
Born 24 June 1951 (1951-06-24) (age 56)
London, England,
United Kingdom
Years active 1968 - present
Spouse(s) Phoebe Nicholls
(6 July 1985 - present)

Charles Sturridge (born 24 June 1951) is an English screenwriter, producer, stage, television and film director.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Sturridge was born in London, England to Jerome Sturridge and Alyson Bowman Vaughan[1]. He was educated at Stonyhurst College.[2]

[edit] 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, Fairy Tale: A True Story 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.

[edit] Personal life

Sturridge married Brideshead Revisited actress Phoebe Nicholls on 6 July 1985,[5][1] with whom he has three children.[6] Their eldest son, Tom Sturridge, is also an actor.

[edit] Selected filmography

[edit] Director

[edit] Actor

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b FilmReference.com. Charles Sturridge Biography (1951-). Retrieved on May 7, 2007.
  2. ^ isbi.com. Stonyhurst College Alumni. Retrieved on May 7, 2007.
  3. ^ British Film Institute. Film & TV Database: STURRIDGE, Charles. Retrieved on May 7, 2007.
  4. ^ Library and Archives Canada. Patricia Rozema Biographie. Retrieved on May 7, 2007.
  5. ^ Ancestry.com. The Times, Marriages: 1982-2004. Retrieved on May 1, 2007.
  6. ^ FindArticles.com. How we met. Retrieved on May 7, 2007.

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NAME Sturridge, Charles
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SHORT DESCRIPTION Director
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH London, England
DATE OF DEATH
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