Mike Newell Biography

Fast Facts

• His parents were amateur actors
• Directed student productions at Cambridge
• Spent three years in the mid-1960s in production training at Britain's Granada Television; early directing credits include episodes of Granada's long-running soap opera Coronation Street
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1976), his first film to be released theatrically in Britain, was made for U
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• Won a British Academy Award for directing Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), which was also honored by the French and Australian film institutes