Sarah Radclyffe
{{Short description|British film producer}}
{{For|those of a similar name|Sarah Radcliffe (disambiguation)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2013}}
{{BLP sources|date=May 2016}}
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Sarah Radclyffe (born 14 November 1950), sometimes credited as Sarah Radcliffe, is a British film producer and co-founder of Working Title Films.{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=Wish You Were Here (1987) FILM: 'WISH YOU WERE HERE'|authorlink=Janet Maslin|first=Janet|last=Maslin|date=July 24, 1987|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B0DE3DA1630F937A15754C0A961948260}}
Career
Radclyffe began working as associative producer in the late 1970s on such films as The Tempest (1979) directed by Derek Jarman.
From 1983 to 1984 she worked on the series The Comic Strip Presents and in 1983 she founded the production company Working Title Films together with business partner Tim Bevan.{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|date=14 December 1998|page=106|title=WT milestones}}[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/apr/16/business.hayfilmfestival2005 The Guardian Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan, co-chairmen Working Title Films] The company's first significant production, Stephen Frears film My Beautiful Laundrette, was released in 1985. Radclyffe left Working Title in 1991. The other theatrical films on which Sarah Radclyffe served as executive producer include Caravaggio (1986), Wish You Were Here (1987), Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1988), A World Apart (1988), Edward II (1991), Sirens (1994), Second Best (1994), Les Misérables (1998), The Lost Son (1999) and The War Zone (1999) for which she was nominated for the European Film Award.{{cite web |url= http://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/home/124020 | title=European Film Awards, Nominations 1999|accessdate=22 October 2011}} She was also executive producer of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant which was released in 2009.
Personal life
She has been married to William Penton Godfrey since 1996 and has two sons, Sam and Callum.Peerage & Baronetage 2008 (Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage). Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2007. {{ISBN|978-187-052-080-5}}:p 314
{{as of|2018}} Radclyffe is a trustee of Anno's Africa, the children's arts charity.{{cite web | url=http://www.annosafrica.org.uk/trustees/ | title=Trustees | publisher=Anno's Africa | accessdate=March 13, 2018}} Radclyffe previously served on the Boards of the British Film Institute and the UK Film Council.{{Cite book |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-annual-review-1999-2000.pdf |title=Annual Review 1 April 1999 – 31 March 2000 |publisher=British Film Institute |year=2000 |pages=2}}
References
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External links
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