Richard Laxton

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Richard Laxton (born 5 July 1967 in London) [1] is a British film director

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Career

Richard Laxton started his career with the short film I Bet It Will Rain in 1992. Initially he mainly worked for TV production, and was nominated for British Academy Film Awards for several of his TV episodes. In 2006 he made his first feature film Life and Lyrics . His next feature films were Grow Your Own in 2007, An Englishman in New York in 2009 and Effie Gray in 2012. His last production for TV were the twelve episodes of the series Him & Her in 2011. In 2013 he realised a biographical film entitled Effie Gray .

Filmography

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References

  1. Short biography of Laxton in German and English (bottom left of the page)