Michael Cormac “Mike” Newell (born 28 March 1942) is an English director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television. After the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005, Newell became the third most commercially successful British director in recent years, behind Christopher Nolan and David Yates, as confirmed by the UK Film Council in their 2010 Statistical Yearbook. Newell won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction in 1994 for Four Weddings and a Funeral and the BAFTA Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in Directing for his career prior to 2005.
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Mike Newell Biography / Wiki
| Name | Mike Newell |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1942-03-28 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 80 |
| Deathday |
Mike Newell Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey | Self | 2011-07-14 | Feature-length documentary chronicling Charlton Heston’s life while filming Ben Hur. Includes behind-the-scenes content and home-movie footage from th… |
| Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts | Self | 2022-01-01 | An enchanting making-of story told through all-new in-depth interviews and cast conversations, inviting fans on a magical first-person journey through… |
| At Sundance | Himself | 1995-01-01 | A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg A… |
Mike Newell Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Director | 2005-11-16 | When Harry Potter’s name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the T… |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral | Director | 1994-03-09 | Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love…. |
| The Man in the Iron Mask | Director | 1977-07-17 | The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public, … |
| An Awfully Big Adventure | Director | 1995-07-21 | Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of … |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Director | 2007-10-04 | In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on t… |
| Mona Lisa Smile | Director | 2003-12-19 | The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, Califo… |
| Donnie Brasco | Director | 1997-02-27 | An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one…. |
| Pushing Tin | Director | 1999-04-23 | Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels…. |
| Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Director | 2010-05-19 | A rogue prince reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable … |
| Into the West | Director | 1992-10-23 | Accused of a crime they didn’t commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West…. |
| Enchanted April | Director | 1991-11-06 | Based on Elizabeth Von Arnim’s novel, four Englishwomen rent an Italian villa on holiday…. |
| Dance with a Stranger | Director | 1985-03-01 | Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for Da… |
| Bad Blood | Director | 1982-11-12 | During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country…. |
| The Awakening | Director | 1980-07-31 | When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen’s tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter…. |
| The Good Father | Director | 1985-11-01 | Bill Hooper — bitter after a messy divorce — tries to help a friend gain custody of his child any way he can…. |
| Amazing Grace and Chuck | Director | 1987-05-22 | Chuck Murdock, a 12-year-old boy from Montana and son of a military jet pilot, becomes anxious after seeing a Minuteman missile on a school field trip… |
| Great Expectations | Director | 2012-11-30 | Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip’s ‘Uncle Pumblechook’ to find a bo… |
| The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid | Director | 2000-09-19 | In the third film in the series, in 1908, Henry Jones Sr. takes his wife, son and the boy’s tutor to the world’s first psycho-analytical conference in… |
| Soursweet | Director | 1988-05-15 | Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen w… |
| The Gift of Friendship | Director | 1974-09-24 | Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor…. |
| Ms or Jill and Jack | Director | 1974-01-02 | Sophisticated executive out with pouty bit of goods from the suburbs…. |
| Just Your Luck | Director | 1972-12-04 | When Alison unexpectedly falls pregnant after a brief encounter with Alex (David Hayman’s first TV role) they decide to marry. The joining of two seem… |
| Birth of a Nation | Director | 1983-06-19 | A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaig… |
| Brassneck | Director | 1975-05-22 | Through the story of a single family, Brassneck traces a history that parallels the Labour Party’s advent to power in 1945 through to the property spe… |
| Ready When You Are, Mr McGill | Director | 1976-01-11 | A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan…. |
| Destiny | Director | 1978-01-31 | A small town shopkeeper is conned into standing for an extreme right-wing party at a by-election and later discovers his financed by the corporation t… |
| Not Counting the Savages | Director | 1972-01-02 | Directed by Mike Newell…. |
| The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil | Director | 1999-11-28 | In the seventeenth film in the series, in 1918, a top-secret mission for French Intelligence brings Indy to Istanbul. Exploring the city’s dark and da… |
| Mrs. Acland’s Ghosts | Director | 1975-01-15 | Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland ‘s ghosts begin to take over Mr Mockler ‘s life…. |
| The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society | Director | 2018-04-19 | Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when sh… |
| One Red Nose Day and a Wedding | Director | 2019-03-15 | You’re invited to the wedding of the year, as the original cast of Four Weddings and a Funeral reunite in this one-off sequel. Twenty-five years aft… |
| The Childhood Friend | Director | 1974-06-27 | On holiday, with his family, nothing to do and his wife ill, Sasha (Alexander) is only too pleased to meet again the girl he loved at 17…. |
| Buffet | Director | 1976-11-02 | A quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie’s nerves are taking a hammering lately; the economy is in dire trouble and who can blame a busi… |
| The Mayor’s Charity | Director | 1977-11-29 | Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as Att… |
| Jack Flea’s Birthday Celebration | Director | 1976-04-10 | Jack Flea finds himself living with a woman nearly twice his age, who decides to make him her fantasy child. It is a role our young hero cannot resist… |
| Blood Feud | Director | 1983-04-25 | Made for TV movie about Bobby Kennedy’s campaign to bring Jimmy Hoffa to justice…. |
| Common Ground | Director | 1990-03-25 | Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970’s because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focus… |
| Director | Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more tha… | ||
| Director | The Adventures of Don Quick is a science fiction comedy television series that ran from October–December 1970, on ITV. Starring Ian Hendry and Ronal… | ||
| Director | Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a … | ||
| Director | In 1996, George Lucas hired T.M. Christopher to aid in re-editing the complete series into twenty-two feature-length episodes. The series was also ret… | ||
| Director | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 4, 1992, to July 24, 1993. Filming took place in vari… | ||
Mike Newell Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Great Expectations | Executive Producer | 2012-11-30 | Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip’s ‘Uncle Pumblechook’ to find a bo… |
| 200 Cigarettes | Executive Producer | 1999-02-26 | It’s New York City in 1981, and various twentysomethings are converging on a New Year’s Eve party…. |
| High Fidelity | Executive Producer | 2000-03-17 | When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn’t changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups o… |
| Best Laid Plans | Executive Producer | 1999-04-09 | Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn’t really… |
| Producer | Dr. Craig Huffstodt, a family man and a successful psychiatrist, gets a wake-up call after a tragedy occurs with one of his patients…. | ||
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