Charles Sturridge

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Charles Sturridge
Born (1951-06-24) 24 June 1951 (age 72)
London, England
Education
Occupations
Years active1967–present
Spouse
(m. 1985)
Children3, including Tom and Matilda Sturridge
RelativesAnthony Nicholls (father-in-law)

Charles B. G. Sturridge (born 24 June 1951)[

Primetime Emmy Awards
.

Early life and education

Sturridge was born in London, England, to Alyson P. (née Burke, later Williams) and Jerome F. Sturridge.[1] He was educated at Stonyhurst College[2] and University College, Oxford.[3]

Career

Sturridge began his career as an actor. He appeared in

Troubles made for London Weekend Television in 1988 and directed by Christopher Morahan
.

Since then the films Sturridge has directed have included

La Forza del Destino" in the anthology film Aria (1987). Other television work includes Soft Targets[5] (1982), A Foreign Field (1985) and Gulliver's Travels (1996), which won six Emmys including Best Series and the Royal Television Society's Team award.[citation needed
]

In 2001, he wrote and directed

Shackleton (2002), which starred Kenneth Branagh, was shot on location in the Arctic. It won the BAFTA for Best Series and Best Costume, and the Radio Times
Audience award for Best Drama 2002, as well as being nominated for seven Primetime Emmys, winning for music and photography.

Sturridge also contributed to Beckett on Film, part of a collaborative effort to film all of Samuel Beckett's plays[6] with Anthony Minghella, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and Neil Jordan and Patricia Rozema. Following Minghella's death in 2009, Sturridge became a director for his final project, the television series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.[citation needed]

In 2010, he returned to Manchester and Coronation Street to direct the story of the making of its first episode

World Wildlife Fund. The film was shown in Odeon Cinemas in August 2011 and made available on the WWF website and YouTube.[citation needed
]

Sturridge's first professional theatre production was a musical version of Charles Dickens' Hard Times which he co-wrote and directed at the Belgrade Theatre Coventry; since then, occasional theatre work includes in 1985 The Seagull (also co-translator) with Vanessa Redgrave, Natasha Richardson and Jonathan Pryce, and Samuel Beckett's Endgame (2006) with Kenneth Cranham and Peter Dinklage which opened at Dublin's Gate Theatre on the centenary of Beckett's 100th birthday, and later transferred to the Barbican. He also directed Handel's Tolomeo (1998) for Broomhill Opera.[citation needed]

In 2007, Sturridge joined the board of the Directors and Producers Rights Society, which, in 2008, widened its responsibilities and changed its name to Directors UK. The DUK currently has over 4,000 members and represents the creative and economic rights of UK film and television directors, with Paul Greengrass as president and Sturridge as the elected chair.[citation needed]

Personal life

Sturridge married actress Phoebe Nicholls on 6 July 1985;[1] they have two sons, including actor Tom Sturridge, and a daughter, actress Matilda Sturridge.[1][7]

Filmography

Director

Actor

  • 1967: Zigger Zagger - Ensemble
  • 1968: if.... - Markland: Juniors
  • 1975:
    Edward the Seventh
    (TV Series) - Bertie (final appearance)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Charles Sturridge Biography (1951-)". FilmReference.com. Archived from the original on 12 January 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2007.
  2. ^ "isbi.com". Stonyhurst College Alumni. Archived from the original on 9 March 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2007.
  3. ^ Revisiting Brideshead Revisited Archived 23 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "British Film Institute". Film & TV Database: STURRIDGE, Charles. Archived from the original on 15 November 2007. Retrieved 7 May 2007.
  5. ^ Internet Movie, Database. "Play For Today". Soft Targets. Imdb. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  6. ^ "Library and Archives Canada". Patricia Rozema Biographie. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2007.
  7. ^ Ellen, Barbara (3 July 2016). "Tom Sturridge: 'If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared'". The Guardian. UK. Archived from the original on 3 September 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  8. ^ "Charles Sturridge". IMDb. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  9. ^ Coast, retrieved 9 January 2024

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