Roland Joffé
Sign in to saveEnglish and French film/television director and producer
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 24,042x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,495x
- Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made
· 2017 · cited 15,552x
- Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean
· 2015 · cited 10,672x
- Complex heatmaps reveal patterns and correlations in multidimensional genomic data
· 2016 · cited 9,235x
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Key dates
- Born
- 17 November 1945
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Roland
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- London
- Spouse
- Jane Lapotaire
- Child
- Rowan Joffé
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- French
- Religion
- Judaism