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Roland Joffé
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English and French film/television director and producer
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Roland Joffé is a British-French film director, producer, and screenwriter born in London in 1945. He began his work period in 1960 and has directed notable films including The Mission, The Killing Fields, There Be Dragons, and The Forgiven. He also delivered The Cinema Militans lecture in 1986. Joffé has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.
He holds citizenship in the United Kingdom and France and speaks English and French. His ancestral home is in France, and he practices Judaism. Joffé is married to Jane Lapotaire, and they have a child named Rowan Joffé. His professional roles include television directing, and his works are categorized under films directed by him.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1945
- Works
- 6
Top works
- The Cinema Militans lecture 1986 / delivered by Roland Joffé
- There be dragons
- The forgiven
- The mission
- The killing fields
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Film & TV
Directing · London, England, UK
Roland Joffé (/ˈdʒɒfeɪ/; born 17 November 1945) is an English film and television director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for directing the critically acclaimed films The Killing Fields (1984) and The Mission (1986), earning him Academy Award nominations for Best Director. The latter won the Palme d'Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Joffé began his career in television, with early…
Known for
- Ennio — Self2022
- Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé — Self2022
- I Am Patrick Swayze — Self2019
- Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game — Self - Producer2014
- The Peculiar Memories of Bruce Robinson — Self1999
- Production Story: Fat Man and Little Boy — Self1989
- Le Grand Échiquier — Self1972
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 122
- Total plays
- 296
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers
· 2015 · cited 25,341x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,617x
- Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made
· 2017 · cited 16,325x
- Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean
· 2015 · cited 10,995x
- Complex heatmaps reveal patterns and correlations in multidimensional genomic data
· 2016 · cited 9,629x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Roland
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Spouse
- Jane Lapotaire
- Child
- Rowan Joffé
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- French
- Religion
- Judaism
- Image
- RolandJoffe OffPlusCamera.JPG
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- Commons category
- Roland Joffé
- date of birth
- 1945-11-17
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Director
- name in native language
- Roland Joffé
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Roland Joffé
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
- social media followers
- 4414
- ancestral home
- France
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