Actor

Iain Softley

Contemporaryb. 1956Documentary

Cinematic Visionary

Also directed 9 films ↗Also wrote 3 screenplays ↗

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Filmography

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About

Iain Declan Softley (born November 30, 1956) is an English film director. He was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing, where he played the part of Thomas Becket in its 1975 production of T. S. Eliot's play, Murder in the Cathedral, and Queens' College, Cambridge. His movies include the Beatles film Backbeat (1994), Hackers (1995), The Wings of the Dove (1997), K-PAX (2001), The Skeleton Key (2005) and Inkheart (2008). Softley also has been developing an adaptation of Stephen Gallagher's novel The Boat House for Dimension Films, set in the English Lake District. He previously attempted to film the book in 1999, with Milla Jovovich in the lead role of a haunted and driven Russian émigré.

As Director

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2001K-PAX 2008Inkheart 1995Hackers 1994Backbeat 2005The Skeleton Key 1997The Wings of the Dove

As Screenwriter

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1994Backbeat 2013Trap for Cinderella 2023The Shepherd

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