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Alvin Rakoff
Alvin Rakoff, among other awards, is twice winner of the International Emmy Award, for A Voyage Round My Father (Laurence Olivier, Jane Asher) and Call Me Daddy (Donald Pleasence)....view moreAlvin Rakoff, among other awards, is twice winner of the International Emmy Award, for A Voyage Round My Father (Laurence Olivier, Jane Asher) and Call Me Daddy (Donald Pleasence). In a career now spanning decades he has directed more than 100 landmark television plays, a dozen feature films and numerous stage productions. Actors he directed include: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Rod Steiger, Richard Harris, Judi Dench, Ava Gardner, Peter Sellers, Jeremy Irons, Henry Fonda, Patrick McGoohan, John Gielgud, Michael Gambon, Shelley Winters, Rex Harrison, Roger Moore, Alan Rickman, Simon Russell Beale and many, many more. He is renowned for starting, among others, the careers of Sean Connery and Alan Rickman. His first novel & Gillian (Little Brown) was translated into 10 languages. His second Baldwin Street (B & B, New York) was about his childhood in Toronto. Seven Einsteins is his third novel. Stage writings include the recently proclaimed adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Big Sleep’ in London. Currently he is writing and preparing a romantic comedy for Triumvirate Films.view less