Charles Sturridge

Charles B. G. Sturridge (born 24 June 1951) is an English screenwriter, producer, stage, television and film director. 2Early life and education Sturridge was born in London, England, to Alyson Bowman Vaughan (née Burke) and Jerome Sturridge. He was educated at Stonyhurst College and University College, Oxford. 2Career Sturridge began his career as an actor. In 1968 he played Markland in Lindsay Anderson's film if.... and portrayed the young Edward VII in Edward the Seventh. 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 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.Since then he has directed such films as Runners, A Handful of Dust, Where Angels Fear to Tread, and Fairy Tale: A True Story, based on the Cottingley Fairies story which won the BAFTA for Best Children's film 1998. In 2009 he wrote and directed a remake of Eric Knight's children's classic Lassie. He also directed the black-and-white segment "La Forza del Destino" from Aria. 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.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 BAFTA