Roland Joffé (born November 17, 1945 in London) is a film director who began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada. He gained a reputation for hard-hitting political stories with the series Bill Brand and factual dramas for Play for Today. Roland Joffe is the son of Marc Joffe (born in Riga) and so is not related to the French film directo...
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Roland Joffé (born November 17, 1945 in London) is a film director who began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada. He gained a reputation for hard-hitting political stories with the series Bill Brand and factual dramas for Play for Today. Roland Joffe is the son of Marc Joffe (born in Riga) and so is not related to the French film director Arthur Joffé as often wrongly stated.
In the early 1970s, Joffe had attended Workers’ Revolutionary Party meetings, but he never became a party member, and by 1977 he had long severed his association with it: “I was very interested in politics at that time. But I was interested in what all the political parties were doing, not just the WRP, and I was never actively involved.”
In 1977, Joffe was commissioned by the BBC to direct a play The Spongers. However, Joffe had been blacklisted: The plays producer, Tony Garnett, was informed that MI5...
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