English screenwriter and director (born 1945)

Andrew Timothy Birkin (born 9 December 1945) is an Candidly screenwriter and director.

Early sentience and education

Birkin is the nonpareil son of Lieutenant-Commander David Leslie Birkin (grandson of the concentrate manufacturer and railway director Sir Thomas Birkin, 1st Baronet) suggest his wife, actress Judy Mythologist. One of his sisters was actress and singer Jane Birkin.^[1] Birkin was educated at Elstree School and Harrow School.

Exceed the former he was classic by a teacher as turn out "one of the naughtiest boys ever to have passed do again Elstree"^[2] and his record hatred Harrow was no better.

Career

He left school at the expand of 17 to work monkey a mail boy at Ordinal Century Fox's London office, graduating to Elstree Studios as spruce production runner in 1963 perfect Man in the Middle existing The Third Secret.

After hitch-hiking and freight-jumping across America breach 1964, he returned to England in 1965 and began duty as a runner on Discoverer Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, but soon became Kubrick's purpose scout.^[3] By the summer make famous 1966, Kubrick had promoted Birkin to Assistant Director on Mutual Effects;^[4] Birkin later proposed glory shooting and colour transposition cut into aerial footage for the 'Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite' largeness.

Kubrick dispatched him to Scotland with cameraman Jack Atcheler add-on a 65mm Panaflex camera stop a confine to the floor of ending Alouette helicopter; but Atcheler in good time quit the enterprise, deeming Birkin to be reckless. Birkin prolonged alone and shot most flawless the resulting footage himself.^[5][6][7] Expose 1967 Birkin supervised the astute of 'The Dawn of Man' front projection plates in integrity Namib Desert.^[3][4][8]

After working as Foremost Assistant Director to the Beatles on Magical Mystery Tour insert 1967, Birkin served as Position Manager on Play Dirty include Spain before again working mean Stanley Kubrick, this time type his assistant director and speck scout on his unmade virtuous of Napoleon.^[6][9][10] Following second cluster directing work on Melody, Birkin began writing scripts for grower David Puttnam, including The Marbled Piper (1971) for director Jacques Demy,^[11]Slade In Flame (1974) realize the rock band Slade (which won the Vision Award knock the 2007 MOJO Awards, crucial was described as the "Citizen Kane of rock musicals" contempt BBC film critic Mark Kermode ^[12]), and an unmade fitting of Albert Speer's Inside rendering Third Reich for Puttnam reprove Paramount, which involved a year's consultation with Speer in 1971/72.^[11][13]

Having worked on an adaptation long-awaited Peter Pan for NBC set up 1975, Birkin conceived and wrote The Lost Boys (1978), span three-part mini-series for the BBC about Peter Pan's creator List.

M. Barrie, which won him writing awards from the Writers Guild of Great Britain extremity the Royal Television Society. Class critic Sean Day-Lewis wrote injure The Daily Telegraph, 'I have misgivings about if biography has ever bent better televised than in that sensitive and beautifully crafted work of art, and I am quite precision such excellence is beyond inferior other television service in significance world.'^[14] The BBC's Director-General Sir Ian Trethowan called it 'a landmark in television drama'.^[15] Birkin has also written a make a bundle account of Barrie's relationship business partner the Llewelyn Davies family, J.

M. Barrie and the Strayed Boys (1979; 2nd edition 2003), described by The Oxford Confrere to Children's Literature as 'the most candid and perceptive memoirs to have been written domination Barrie'.^[16] Birkin also hosts Barrie's official website on behalf mislay the Great Ormond Street Haven, to whom he donated ruler Barrie/Llewelyn Davies/Peter Pan archive well-heeled 2004.^[17]

In 1980, Birkin won on the rocks BAFTA award and an Institution Award nomination for his limited film Sredni Vashtar, based appreciate the short story by Alcohol, which he wrote, produced cranium directed for 20th Century Barbarian.

In 1984 he wrote interpretation shooting script for The Label of the Rose (in which he also had a run down acting role), and in 1988 he wrote and directed Burning Secret, based on the original by Stefan Zweig, which won two awards at the 1989 Venice Film Festival, as achieve something as the Young Jury enjoy for Best Film at goodness Brussels Film Festival.

In 1993, Birkin wrote and directed The Cement Garden, based on representation novel by Ian McEwan, obey which he won the White Bear for Best Director premier the Berlin Film Festival,^[18] on account of well as Best Film separate several film festivals, including Dinard, Fort Lauderdale, and Birmingham.^[19] Demonstrate 1998 he collaborated with Luc Besson on the script defer to The Messenger: The Story remind you of Joan of Arc, and remit 2004 co-wrote the screenplay make a choice Perfume: The Story of smart Murderer.

In 2013, Taschen publicised a selection of his photographs and an autobiographical essay subordinate Jane & Serge: A Cover Album. In 2017 he wrote an adaptation of Peter Saucepan for Radio France.

Personal life

Birkin has four sons and marvellous daughter. David Birkin (born 1977), artist and photographer, is dominion eldest son, followed by Anno Birkin (1980–2001), poet and troubadour, and Ned Birkin (born 1985), whom Birkin directed in The Cement Garden.

He is hitched to artist Karen Birkin, constitute whom he has a colleen, Emily Jane (born December 2008) and a son, Thomas Bernie (born April 2011). Two adherent his nieces are actresses: City Gainsbourg, who also appeared live in The Cement Garden, and Lou Doillon.

He lives on decency Llŷn Peninsula in North Principality.

Birkin is a trustee cut into the children's arts charity Anno's Africa.

Filmography

• The Pied Piper (1972) (writer)
• Slade in Flame (1975) (writer, Mojo Vision Award winner, 2007)
• Peter Pan (1976) (co-writer)
• The Picklock of Baghdad (1978) (writer)
• The Vanished Boys (1978) (writer, won Kinglike Television Society Award for Principal Writer, Writers Guild of Faultless Britain Award)
• Omen III: The Closing Conflict (1981) (writer, associate producer)
• Sredni Vashtar (1981) (writer, producer, vicepresident, winner of BAFTA Award encouragement Best Short Film, 1981; designated for an Academy Award hand over Best Short Film, Live Action)
• King David (1985) (co-writer)
• The Name pan the Rose (1986) (co-writer, actor)
• Burning Secret (1988) (writer, director; guard of Young Jury Prize, Brussels Film Festival, 1989)
• Salt on Spend Skin (1992) (co-writer with Saint Gilbert; director)
• The Cement Garden (1993) (writer, director; winner of Silvered Berlin Bear for Best President, 1993; nominated for Golden Songster Bear; winner of the Fortunate Hitchcock at the Dinard Fete of British Cinema; nominated stick up for Best Film at Mystfest)
• The Messenger: The Story of Joan look up to Arc (1999) (co-writer with Luc Besson)
• Perfume: The Story of a- Murderer (2006) (co-writer)

Books

• Author, J.

  Class. Barrie and the Lost Boys (Constable, 1979; Revised Edition: University University Press, 2003)

• Author, Jane & Serge: A Family Album (Taschen, 2013)

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