Christopher Miles

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Christopher Miles (born April 19, 1939 in London , United Kingdom ) is a British film director , film producer and screenwriter .

Christopher Miles and his sister Sarah Miles while filming the film Priest of Love (1980)

Live and act

The eldest of four children, also the brother of the famous actress Sarah Miles , attended Winchester College from 1953 to 1957 . In 1957, an amateur film made by Christopher Miles as part of the children's program All Your Own was shown as the first 8-millimeter production on British BBC television. At the age of 19, it was reported, Red Chinese authorities arrested Miles, who was currently in the People's Republic of China for a film job, for alleged espionage and interrogated him non-stop for 20 hours. Back in Europe, Miles decided to undergo professional all-round training in film.

He went to Paris in 1961 and attended the renowned Institut des hautes études cinématographiques there until the following year . Back in England, Miles immediately began directing films. Already his short debut, the almost half-hour long love triangle about a woman between two men, The Six-Sided Triangle , earned him an Oscar nomination in 1964 . Then Christopher Miles was also entrusted with directing feature films. But none of his follow-up productions, including The Girl and the Gypsy , which was nominated for the Golden Globe Award in 1970 , as well as The Pariser Apartment, The Maids and Stay Away from Me , the one with Franco Nero , Mel Ferrer , Glenda Jackson , Susannah York and Roger Moore had a prominent cast, turned out to be a great success with critics or even audiences. In the following years, Miles, whose output for five decades of filmmaking is not exactly abundant, usually turned for television. Since the 1980s, as a filmmaker, he has developed an increasing interest in sports topics, often in connection with historical developments. Miles' last work in 2012 is a one-hour documentary on the occasion of the XXX. London Olympic Games .

Christopher Miles married the painter Suzy Armstrong in 1967. With her he had a daughter named Sophie, who works as a painter and potter. His temporary brother-in-law was double Oscar winner Robert Bolt .

Filmography (selection)

As a director, unless otherwise stated

  • 1963: The Six-Sided Triangle (short film, also screenplay and production)
  • 1964: Rhythm 'n' Greens (short film, also screenplay)
  • 1965: Up Jumped a Swagman
  • 1970: The Virgin and the Gypsy
  • 1971: The Paris Apartment (A Time for Loving)
  • 1972: Zinotchka (TV short film)
  • 1974: Die Maids ( The Maids , also screenplay)
  • 1975: Stay away from me (That Lucky Touch)
  • 1977: Alternative 3 (TV movie)
  • 1980: Priest of Love (also production)
  • 1982: Daley's Decathlon (TV film, also production)
  • 1984: Marathon (TV documentary, also screenplay)
  • 1986: Lord Elgin and Some Stones of Value (TV film, also production)
  • 1997: Love in the Ancient World (TV film, also screenplay and production)
  • 1999: The Clandestine Marriage
  • 2012: Fire From Olympia (video documentation, also screenplay and production)

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 2001, Quigley Publishing Company, Larchmont, New York 2001, p. 292

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonathan Aitken: "Young Meteors". Martin Secker & Warburg, 1967 p. 241 f.
  2. ↑ According to a report in Essex Weekly News: "Chinese Reds clapped him in goal", February 20, 1959

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personal data
SURNAME Miles, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK