Charles Sturridge

Charles Sturridge
Born	Charles B. G. Sturridge[1] 24 June 1951 (1951-06-24) (age 60) London, England
Occupation	Film director, Television director
Years active	1968 - 1975 (as an actor) 1978 - present (as a director)
Spouse	Phoebe Nicholls (1985-)

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

Personal life

Sturridge was born in London, England to Alyson Bowman Vaughan (née Burke) and Jerome Sturridge.^[2] He was educated at Stonyhurst College.^[3] Sturridge married Brideshead Revisited actress Phoebe Nicholls on 6 July 1985,^[2][4] with whom he has three children,^[5] 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 late twenties,^[6] 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, as well as 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^[7] with Anthony Minghella, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Neil Jordan and Patricia Rozema. He directed the miniseries Gulliver's Travels, 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.

Filmography

Director

• 1981: Brideshead Revisited
• 1983: Runners
• 1987: Aria
• 1988: A Handful of Dust
• 1991: Where Angels Fear to Tread
• 1993: A Foreign Field
• 1996: Gulliver's Travels
• 1997: FairyTale: A True Story
• 2000: Longitude
• 2002: Shackleton
• 2005: Lassie
• 2008: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
• 2010: The Road to Coronation Street

Actor

• 1968: if....
• 1975: Edward the Seventh

References

1. ^ Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916-2005.; at ancestry.com
2. ^ ^{a b} "FilmReference.com". Charles Sturridge Biography (1951-). http://www.filmreference.com/film/53/Charles-Sturridge.html. Retrieved May 7, 2007. 
3. ^ "isbi.com". Stonyhurst College Alumni. http://www.isbi.com/isbi-viewschool/1585-STONYHURST_COLLEGE.html. Retrieved May 7, 2007. 
4. ^ "Ancestry.com". The Times, Marriages: 1982-2004. http://www.ancestry.com. Retrieved May 1, 2007. 
5. ^ "FindArticles.com". How we met. Archived from the original on January 11, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080111215419/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19980222/ai_n14148517. Retrieved May 7, 2007. 
6. ^ "British Film Institute". Film & TV Database: STURRIDGE, Charles. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/5075?view=credit. Retrieved May 7, 2007. 
7. ^ "Library and Archives Canada". Patricia Rozema Biographie. http://www.lac-bac.gc.ca/women/002026-713-e.html. Retrieved May 7, 2007. 

External links

• Charles Sturridge at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Sturridge, Charles
Alternative names
Short description	Director
Date of birth	June 24, 1951
Place of birth	London, England
Date of death
Place of death