Biography

474 films, oldest first. Page 1 of 5.

Biography films
Year	Title	Director
1950	Madeleine	David Lean
1951	The Magic Box	John Boulting
1951	Murder in the Cathedral	George Hoellering
1952	Moulin Rouge	John Huston
1953	Melba	Lewis Milestone
1954	Beau Brummell	Curtis Bernhardt
1954	John Wesley	Norman Walker
1954	Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue	Harold French
1955	The Dark Avenger	Henry Levin
1956	Reach for the Sky	Lewis Gilbert
1957	After the Ball	Compton Bennett
1957	The Barretts of Wimpole Street	Sidney Franklin
1957	Saint Joan	Otto Preminger
1957	The Tommy Steele Story	Gerard Bryant
1958	I Accuse!	José Ferrer
1958	The Inn of the Sixth Happiness	Mark Robson
1960	Oscar Wilde	Gregory Ratoff
1960	The Trials of Oscar Wilde	Ken Hughes
1962	Dr. Crippen	Robert Lynn
1962	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean
1962	The Password Is Courage	Andrew L. Stone
1963	Cleopatra	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1964	Becket	Peter Glenville
1965	Genghis Khan	Henry Levin
1965	Young Cassidy	Jack Cardiff
1966	A Man for All Seasons	Fred Zinnemann
1966	Rasputin, the Mad Monk	Don Sharp
1966	The Fighting Prince of Donegal	Michael O'Herlihy
1968	The Fixer	John Frankenheimer
1968	Isadora	Karel Reisz
1969	Alfred the Great	Clive Donner
1969	Where's Jack?	James Clavell
1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	Charles Jarrott
1970	Cromwell	Ken Hughes
1970	The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens	Ned Sherrin
1970	Ned Kelly	Tony Richardson
1971	10 Rillington Place	Richard Fleischer
1971	The Devils	Ken Russell
1971	Man in the Wilderness	Richard C. Sarafian
1971	The Music Lovers	Ken Russell
1971	Countess Dracula	Peter Sasdy
1971	Nicholas and Alexandra	Franklin J. Schaffner
1971	Mary, Queen of Scots	Charles Jarrott
1972	The Assassination of Trotsky	Joseph Losey
1972	Brother Sun, Sister Moon	Franco Zeffirelli
1972	Lady Caroline Lamb	Robert Bolt
1972	My Childhood	Bill Douglas
1972	Savage Messiah	Ken Russell
1972	The Six Wives of Henry VIIIHenry VIII and His Six Wives	Waris Hussein
1972	Pancho Villa	Eugenio Martín
1972	Young Winston	Richard Attenborough
1973	Luther	Guy Green
1973	My Ain Folk	Bill Douglas
1973	Hitler: The Last Ten Days	Ennio de Concini
1974	The Abdication	Anthony Harvey
1974	The Great McGonagall	Joseph McGrath
1974	Mahler	Ken Russell
1975	Winstanley	Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
1975	Lisztomania	Ken Russell
1976	The Incredible Sarah	Richard Fleischer
1977	The Greatest	Tom Gries, Monte Hellman
1977	Valentino	Ken Russell
1977	Julia	Fred Zinnemann
1978	The Lost Boys	Rodney Bennett
1978	Stevie	Robert Enders
1978	Midnight Express	Alan Parker
1978	My Way Home	Bill Douglas
1979	Caligula	Tinto Brass, Bob Guccione
1979	Meetings with Remarkable Men	Peter Brook
1979	My Left Foot	Jim Sheridan
1980	McVicar	Tom Clegg
1980	Nijinsky	Herbert Ross
1981	Chanel Solitaire	George Kaczender
1981	Rise and Fall of Idi Amin	Sharad Patel
1981	Chariots of Fire	Hugh Hudson
1981	Priest of Love	Christopher Miles
1982	Unknown Chaplin	Kevin Brownlow, David Gill
1982	Gandhi	Richard Attenborough
1984	John Wycliffe: The Morning Star	Tony Tew
1984	The Killing Fields	Roland Joffé
1984	Space Riders	Joe Massot
1985	King David	Bruce Beresford
1985	Dance with a Stranger	Mike Newell
1986	Caravaggio	Derek Jarman
1986	God's Outlaw	Tony Tew
1986	Lady Jane	Trevor Nunn
1986	Salvador	Oliver Stone
1986	Sid and Nancy	Alex Cox
1987	Castaway	Nicolas Roeg
1987	Cry Freedom	Richard Attenborough
1987	The Last Emperor	Bernardo Bertolucci
1987	Personal Services	Terry Jones
1987	Prick Up Your Ears	Stephen Frears
1987	Testimony	Tony Palmer
1987	White Mischief	Michael Radford
1988	The Bengali Night	Nicolas Klotz
1988	Imagine: John Lennon	Andrew Solt
1988	Stealing Heaven	Clive Donner
1988	Buster	David Green
1988	Christabel	Adrian Shergold