Madden, John 1949–

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MADDEN, John 1949–

PERSONAL

Born April 8, 1949, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England; married Penny; children: Oliver, Emma. Education: Attended Clifton College; studied English at Sidney Sussex College, 1970.

Addresses: Agent—Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career: Director. Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company, artistic director; worked as an actor during the 1970s; began working at British Broadcasting Company (BBC), 1973; taught at Yale University.

Awards, Honors: Television Award nomination (with others), best single drama, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1991, for The Widowmaker; Film Award (with others), best feature film and best single drama, British Academy of Film and Television Arts—Scotland, 1997, for Mrs. Brown; Certificate of Merit, San Francisco International Film Festival, television drama and television feature, 1997, both for Truth or Dare; Academy Award nomination, best director, 1999, San Diego Film Critics Society Award, best director, 1998, Golden Globe Award nomination, best director—motion picture, 1999, Directors Guild of America Award nomination, outstanding directorial achievement in motion pictures, 1999, Hochi Film Award, best foreign language film, 1999, Chlotrudis Award nomination, best director, 1999, Golden Berlin Bear Award nomination, Berlin International Film Festival, 1999, David Lean Award for Direction nomination, Film Award, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1999, Bodil Award nomination, best American film, 2000, Czech Lion Award, best foreign language film, 2000, Mainichi Film Concours Award, best foreign language film, 2000, Kinempa Junpo Award, best foreign language film, Readers' Choice Award, and Kinempa Junpo awards, best foreign language film, both 2000, all for Shakespeare in Love; ShoWest Award, ShoWest Convention, director of the year, 1999; Prospero Award, Bermuda International Film Festival, 2001; Prix Italia, for the radio version of Wings.

CREDITS

Film Director:

Ethan Frome, Miramax, 1993.

Golden Gate, Samuel Goldwyn, 1994.

Mrs. Brown (also known as Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown), Miramax, 1997.

Shakespeare in Love, Universal, 1998.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (also known as Capitaine Corelli), Miramax, 2001.

Proof, Miramax, 2005.

Film Appearances:

Himself, Italian Soldiers (also known as Spaghetti Requiem; documentary), First Hand Films, 2001.

Television Director; Miniseries:

"Friends and Enemies," "Fathers and Sons," "French and English," "Winds of Change," and "Final Demands," After the War, PBS and ITV (England), 1989.

"Theseus and the Minotaur," The Storyteller: Greek Myths (also known as Jim Henson's "The Story-teller": Greek Myths), HBO, 1990.

Television Director; Movies:

The Widowmaker, 1990.

Meat, BBC (England), 1994.

Prime Suspect 4: The Lost Child, PBS, 1995.

Truth or Dare, BBC, 1996.

Television Director; Specials:

Wings, PBS, 1983.

Grown-Ups, Showtime, 1985.

A Wreath of Roses, PBS, 1987.

The Infernal Serpent, PBS, 1991.

Promised Land, PBS, 1993.

Inspector Morse, Series VII: Dead on Time, Arts and Entertainment, 1994.

The Way through the Woods, PBS, 1997.

Television Director; Episodic:

"The Priory School," The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Series I, PBS and Granada, 1986.

"The Man with the Twisted Lip," The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Series I, PBS, 1986.

"The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax," The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, ITV (England), 1991, then PBS, 1992.

Also directed "Dead on Time," Inspector Morse, ITV and PBS; "Promised Land," Inspector Morse, ITV and PBS; "The Way Through the Woods", Inspector Morse, ITV and PBS.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Himself, The 71st Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 1999.

The Last Morse (documentary), PBS, 2001.

Himself, The John Thaw Story (documentary), 2002.

Radio Work:

Director, Ear (series), National Public Radio, 1975.

Director of radio versions of Wings; Star Wars, National Public Radio; The Empire Strikes Back, National Public Radio; and Return of the Jedi, National Public Radio.