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Charles Sturridge (Charles B. G. Sturridge) was born on 24 June, 1951 in London, England, is an English director and screenwriter. Discover Charles Sturridge's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As Charles B. G. Sturridge
Occupation Television director Film director Screenwriter
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 24 June 1951
Birthday 24 June
Birthplace London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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His wife is Phoebe Nicholls (m. 1985)

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Children 3, including Tom and Matilda Sturridge

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1951

Charles B. G. Sturridge (born 24 June 1951) is an English director and screenwriter.

He is the recipient of a BAFTA Children's Award and four BAFTA TV Awards.

He has also been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards.

Sturridge was born in London, England, to Alyson P. (née Burke, later Williams) and Jerome F. Sturridge.

He was educated at Stonyhurst College and University College, Oxford.

Sturridge began his career as an actor.

1967

He appeared in Zigger Zagger in 1967 with the National Youth Theatre, played Markland in Lindsay Anderson's film if.... (1968) and portrayed the young Edward VII in Edward the Seventh (1975).

After directing episodes of Coronation Street, Strangers, World in Action, Crown Court and The Spoils of War by his late twenties, he gained international recognition for his work on the eleven-part television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited which won over 17 awards including two Golden Globes and six British Academy awards.

1982

Other television work includes Soft Targets (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.

1985

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.

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

1987

He also directed the black-and-white segment "La Forza del Destino" in the anthology film Aria (1987).

1988

He scripted a film version of J. G. Farrell's Troubles made for London Weekend Television in 1988 and directed by Christopher Morahan.

1998

Since then the films Sturridge has directed have included Runners, A Handful of Dust, Where Angels Fear to Tread, and FairyTale: A True Story, based on the Cottingley Fairies story which won the BAFTA for Best Children's film 1998.

He also directed Handel's Tolomeo (1998) for Broomhill Opera.

2000

In 2000, he formed Firstsight Films whose first production was an account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition, which Sturridge wrote and directed.

2001

In 2001, he wrote and directed Longitude, based on Dava Sobell's best selling life of the clockmaker John Harrison which won the Banff TV Festival Best Series award, two PAWS awards and five BAFTAs.

2002

The serial 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 with Anthony Minghella, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and Neil Jordan and Patricia Rozema.

2005

He wrote and directed Lassie (2005), a remake of Eric Knight's children's story.

2007

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.

2009

Following Minghella's death in 2009, Sturridge became a director for his final project, the television series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

2010

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

2011

This television film won both the RTS and BAFTA awards for Best Single Drama 2011 and a gold medal at the New York Film and TV Festival in Las Vegas.

In 2011, Sturridge directed a seven-minute short film, "Astonish Me", written by Stephen Poliakoff to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the World Wildlife Fund.

The film was shown in Odeon Cinemas in August 2011 and made available on the WWF website and YouTube.