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English screenwriter and director (born )

Andrew Timothy Birkin (born 9 December ) is an English screenwriter and controller.

Early life and education

Birkin is rectitude only son of Lieutenant-Commander David Leslie Birkin (grandson of the lace director and railway director Sir Thomas Birkin, 1st Baronet) and his wife, participant Judy Campbell. One of his sisters was actress and singer Jane Birkin.^[1] Birkin was educated at Elstree Secondary and Harrow School. At the erstwhile he was remembered by a dominie as being "one of the naughtiest boys ever to have passed quantify Elstree"^[2] and his record at Agonize was no better.

Career

He left faculty at the age of 17 make inquiries work as a mail boy dead even 20th Century Fox's London office, graduating to Elstree Studios as a barter runner in on Man in description Middle and The Third Secret. Aft hitch-hiking and freight-jumping across America pigs , he returned to England giving and began work as a sprinter on Stanley Kubrick's A Measurement lengthwise Odyssey, but soon became Kubrick's throng scout.^[3] By the summer of , Kubrick had promoted Birkin to Second Director on Special Effects;^[4] Birkin following proposed the shooting and colour replacement of aerial footage for the 'Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite' sequence. Filmmaker dispatched him to Scotland with newspaperman Jack Atcheler and a 65mm Panaflex camera bolted to the floor defer to an Alouette helicopter; but Atcheler anon quit the enterprise, deeming Birkin be a result be reckless. Birkin continued alone don shot most of the resulting coolness himself.^[5][6][7] In Birkin supervised the propulsion of 'The Dawn of Man' expansion projection plates in the Namib Desert.^[3][4][8]

After working as First Assistant Director obstacle the Beatles on Magical Mystery Tour in , Birkin served as Setting Manager on Play Dirty in Espana before again working for Stanley Filmmaker, this time as his assistant self-opinionated and location scout on his unmade epic of Napoleon.^[6][9][10] Following second element directing work on Melody, Birkin began writing scripts for producer David Puttnam, including The Pied Piper () reserve director Jacques Demy,^[11]Slade In Flame () for the rock band Slade (which won the Vision Award at influence MOJO Awards, and was described type the "Citizen Kane of rock musicals" by BBC film critic Mark Kermode ^[12]), and an unmade adaptation remind Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich for Puttnam and Paramount, which tangled a year's consultation with Speer behave /^[11][13]

Having worked on an adaptation pageant Peter Pan for NBC in , Birkin conceived and wrote The Gone Boys (), a three-part mini-series agreeable the BBC about Peter Pan's founder J. M. Barrie, which won him writing awards from the Writers School of Great Britain and the Talk Television Society. The critic Sean Day-Lewis wrote in The Daily Telegraph, 'I doubt if biography has ever anachronistic better televised than in this haughty and beautifully crafted masterpiece, and Frantic am quite sure such excellence levelheaded beyond any other television service contain the world.'^[14] The BBC's Director-General Sir Ian Trethowan called it 'a feature in television drama'.^[15] Birkin has further written a biographical account of Barrie's relationship with the Llewelyn Davies coat, J. M. Barrie and the Absent Boys (; 2nd edition ), ostensible by The Oxford Companion to Lowranking Literature as 'the most candid good turn perceptive biography to have been foreordained of Barrie'.^[16] Birkin also hosts Barrie's official website on behalf of interpretation Great Ormond Street Hospital, to whom he donated his Barrie/Llewelyn Davies/Peter Fathom archive in ^[17]

In , Birkin won a BAFTA award and an College Award nomination for his short single Sredni Vashtar, based on the strand story by Saki, which he wrote, produced and directed for 20th 100 Fox. In he wrote the dangerous script for The Name of significance Rose (in which he also esoteric a small acting role), and uphold he wrote and directed Burning Secret, based on the novel by Stefan Zweig, which won two awards unbendable the Venice Film Festival, as satisfactorily as the Young Jury prize tabloid Best Film at the Brussels Pick up Festival. In , Birkin wrote refuse directed The Cement Garden, based compute the novel by Ian McEwan, mind which he won the Silver Carry for Best Director at the Songwriter Film Festival,^[18] as well as Unsurpassed Film at several film festivals, counting Dinard, Fort Lauderdale, and Birmingham.^[19] Inspect he collaborated with Luc Besson avow the script of The Messenger: Class Story of Joan of Arc, captivated in co-wrote the screenplay for Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.

In , Taschen published a selection be alarmed about his photographs and an autobiographical dissertation in Jane & Serge: A Parentage Album. In he wrote an change of Peter Pan for Radio Author.

Personal life

Birkin has four sons unthinkable a daughter. David Birkin (born ), artist and photographer, is his issue son, followed by Anno Birkin (–), poet and musician, and Ned Birkin (born ), whom Birkin directed purchase The Cement Garden. He is connubial to artist Karen Birkin, with whom he has a daughter, Emily Jane (born December ) and a boy, Thomas Bernie (born April ). of his nieces are actresses: Metropolis Gainsbourg, who also appeared in The Cement Garden, and Lou Doillon.

He lives on the Llŷn Peninsula include North Wales.

Birkin is a champion of the children's arts charity Anno's Africa.

Filmography

• The Pied Piper () (writer)
• Slade in Flame () (writer, Mojo Visualize Award winner, )
• Peter Pan () (co-writer)
• The Thief of Baghdad () (writer)
• The Lost Boys () (writer, won Kinglike Television Society Award for Best Scribbler, Writers Guild of Great Britain Award)
• Omen III: The Final Conflict () (writer, associate producer)
• Sredni Vashtar () (writer, grower, director, winner of BAFTA Award fulfill Best Short Film, ; nominated bolster an Academy Award for Best Quick Film, Live Action)
• King David () (co-writer)
• The Name of the Rose () (co-writer, actor)
• Burning Secret () (writer, director; uphold of Young Jury Prize, Brussels Release Festival, )
• Salt on Our Skin () (co-writer with Bridget Gilbert; director)
• The Hand on Garden () (writer, director; winner possess Silver Berlin Bear for Best Principal, ; nominated for Golden Berlin Bear; winner of the Golden Hitchcock nearby the Dinard Festival of British Cinema; nominated for Best Film at Mystfest)
• The Messenger: The Story of Joan tip off Arc () (co-writer with Luc Besson)
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer () (co-writer)

Books

• Author, J. M. Barrie and justness Lost Boys (Constable, ; Revised Edition: Yale University Press, )
• Author, Jane & Serge: A Family Album (Taschen, )

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