 His best-known credits include the 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" starring John Hurt and Richard Burton (in his final role), the Shakespeare adaptation "The Merchant of Venice," the true crime drama "White Mischief," and the 1994 Italian-language comedy drama "," for which he won the BAFTA Awards for Best Direction and Best Film Not in the English Language, and earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.Radford was born on 24 February 1946, in New Delhi, India, to a British father and an Austrian Jewish mother.He was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford.