Richard Loncraine is one of British film and television’s most respected and acclaimed directors with an amazing resumé.
The sheer range of his work cannot fail to impress from Dennis Potter’s Blade on the Feather (1980) and Brimstone & Treacle (1982); to period comedy The Missionary (1982); the definitive Winston Churchill drama The Gathering Storm (2002); to the romantic charm of Wimbledon (2004). Added into the mix is the raw action of 2001’s TV series Band Of Brothers; Harrison Ford and Paul Bettany in 2006’s Firewall; Ian McKellern’s star turn in Richard III (1995); Maggie Smith’s Emmy Award-winning performance in My House in Umbria (2003); plus the 2001 TV movie The Special Relationship with Michael Sheen as Tony Blair – and it all combines to make a pretty impressive resume. Oh, and to which we can add the joyful 2017 feelgood and starry-cast Finding Your Feet, the 2009 Renee Zellweger comedy drama My One and Only and 2014’s Ruth and Alice (aka 5 Flights Up) with Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton.
Richard directed his first networked TV documentary, The Most Beautiful Hotel in the World while still at film school aged twenty-one. He then spent three years working for the BBC producing and directing short films for the science show, Tomorrow’s World and in 1970 moved into advertising, where he directed over six hundred commercials during the next twenty years. During that time Richard alternated between directing major films in the US and the UK with television dramas for HBO and the BBC. Richard has won many international awards for directing plus in 2006 a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award (Oscar) for development of the first remote camera head (The Hot Head) that is now an industry standard throughout the world.
