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Director: Charles Sturridge
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  • Born: Jun 24, 1951 in London, England, UK
  • Occupation: Director, Writer, Actor
  • Active: '80s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Children's/Family
  • Career Highlights: Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust, Aria
  • First Major Screen Credit: Strangers (1978)

Biography

An actor-turned-writer/director whose keen sense of history, love of literature, and fascination with fantasy have resulted in a variety of compelling works in both film and television, Charles Sturridge nurtured a love for theater early on when he appeared in National Youth Theater productions of Zigger Zagger and A Midsummer Nights Dream, later advancing to become president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. A brief onscreen career with roles in Lindsay Anderson's If... and the Emmy-award winning miniseries Edward the King followed before Sturridge opted to take a turn behind the camera to helm episodes of Stangers and The Spoils of War shortly thereafter. Subsequently assured in his strengths as a director, Sturridge would cement his status as a skilled storyteller with the BAFTA and Emmy-winning miniseries Brideshead Revisited in 1981, and in 1983 the emerging director launched his feature career with Runners, an affecting tale of teenage runaways. Sturridge would later distinguish himself as a period specialist with such well-received dramas as A Handful of Dust and Where Angels Fear to Tread, with his turn towards fantasy in the 1996 miniseries Gulliver's Travels proving just how effectively the two genres could mix. In 1997 Sturridge would charm viewers by recounting the ingenious hoax of two World War I-era girls who had claimed to photograph fairies in Fairy Tale: A True Story, with an adaptation of Samuel Beckett's play Ohio Impromptu serving to reunite the director with Brideshead Revisited star Jeremy Irons in 2000. Yet another screen venture alongside Irons would follow when Sturridge recounted the 18th century race to discover the longitude of the sea in the BAFTA-winning made-for-television movie Longitude. By now it appeared as if the ocean was simply in Sturridge's blood, and in 2002 the director would team with Shakespeare specialist Kenneth Branagh for Shackleton, a BAFTA-and Emmy-award winning account of Ernest Shackleton's heroic effort to save his 28-man crew after their boat is destroyed by pack ice during a 1914 expedition to the South Pole. In 2005 Sturridge returned to the big screen to revive the screen career of everyone's favorite rough collie with Lassie, a feel-good adventure for the entire family that starred Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton, and Peter Dinklage. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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Charles Sturridge
Born 24 June 1951 (1951-06-24) (age 58)
London, England
Occupation Film director, Television director
Years active 1968 - present
Spouse(s) Phoebe Nicholls (1985-)

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

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Personal life

Sturridge was born in London, England to Alyson Bowman Vaughan (née Burke) and Jerome Sturridge.[1] He was educated at Stonyhurst College.[2] Sturridge married Brideshead Revisited actress Phoebe Nicholls on 6 July 1985,[1][3] with whom he has three children,[4] Tom, Arthur, and Matilda Sturridge, who all act.

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,[5] 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[6] 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. Following Minghella's death in 2008, Sturridge became a director for his final project the television series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

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References

  1. ^ a b "FilmReference.com". Charles Sturridge Biography (1951-). http://www.filmreference.com/film/53/Charles-Sturridge.html. Retrieved May 7, 2007. 
  2. ^ "isbi.com". Stonyhurst College Alumni. http://www.isbi.com/isbi-viewschool/1585-STONYHURST_COLLEGE.html. Retrieved May 7, 2007. 
  3. ^ "Ancestry.com". The Times, Marriages: 1982-2004. http://www.ancestry.com. Retrieved May 1, 2007. 
  4. ^ "FindArticles.com". How we met. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19980222/ai_n14148517. Retrieved May 7, 2007. 
  5. ^ "British Film Institute". Film & TV Database: STURRIDGE, Charles. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/5075?view=credit. Retrieved May 7, 2007. 
  6. ^ "Library and Archives Canada". Patricia Rozema Biographie. http://www.lac-bac.gc.ca/women/002026-713-e.html. Retrieved May 7, 2007. 

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