Michael Foot

Michael Foot

Рождение : 1913-07-23, Plymouth, Devon, England, UK

Смерть : 2010-03-03

История

Michael Foot was a British politician and served as the leader of the Labour Party from 1980-1983. He was a pacifist and a supporter of CND who studied philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford. As a documentary screenwriter for the war effort in the 1940s, he worked alongside Frank Owen under the joint pseudonym of Michael Frank and was known for Young Veteran (1940), Yellow Caesar (1941). He was married to documentary filmmaker Jill Craigie.

Профиль

Michael Foot

Фильмы

Independent Miss Craigie
Himself (Archive Footage)
Some time after her death, film director Jill Craigie (1911- 99), re-opens an old suitcase, prompting memories of the extraordinary life and loves of this forceful, charismatic woman, whose work has been long neglected. Craigie was one of the first women to direct documentaries. Working outside the British Documentary Movement in the 1940s and early 1950s, her films such as To Be Woman (1951), on equal pay, and Out of Chaos (1944), the first film about artists at work, featuring Henry Moore and Paul Nash, tackled new subjects for the cinema through a unique blend of drama, polemic and humour. Independent Miss Craigie uses the director’s unseen papers, and her films, to reveal her energetic struggles to get her radical projects made and distributed, including her last one, on the Yugoslav conflict, made when she was 83, with her husband, former Labour leader, Michael Foot.
The Wilderness Years
Self
Documentary showing the many travails of the UK Labour Party during its long period in opposition from 1979 and through the 1980's and 1990's.
Two Hours from London
Himself
Documentary about the outbreak of the war in former Yugoslavia that calls on the leaders of Europe to come to the aid of the stricken country.
Yellow Caesar
Screenplay
Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.
Young Veteran
Commentator
The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.
Young Veteran
Writer
The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.