Angela Pope (born in 1945) is a British television and film director, documentarist, producer and screenwriter.

Life and career

Born in

Walton-on-Thames Walton-on-Thames, known locally as Walton, is a market town on the bank (geography), south bank of the River Thames, Thames in northwest Surrey, England. It is in the Borough of Elmbridge, about southwest of central London. Walton forms part ...

, Pope graduated in political sciences at the

University of Sussex The University of Sussex is a public university, public research university, research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the ...

. She started her career as a documentarist for

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, getting critical acclaim as well as raising controversies with '' Yesterday's Men'' (1971), which portrayed some members of the Wilson Cabinet in the aftermath of the Labour Party defeat at

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. After numerous documentaries, including the controversial ''The Best Days?'' (1977), which criticized the comprehensive school system using the Faraday High School in

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, she made her narrative film debut in 1986 with the television film ''Night Shift'', based on her own play. In 1987 Pope got critical acclaim with the

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-themed television film ''Sweet As You Are'', starring

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and

Miranda Richardson Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English actress who has worked in film, television and theatre. After graduating from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Richardson began her career in 1979 and made her West End theatre, West ...

, which was awarded best film from the

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. Her feature film debut ''

Captives ''Captives'' is a 1994 British romantic crime drama film directed by Angela Pope and written by the Dublin screenwriter Frank Deasy. It stars Julia Ormond, Tim Roth and Keith Allen. The picture was selected as the opening film in the Venetian ...

'' premiered out of competition at the 1994 edition of the

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, and was followed two years later by the family drama ''

Hollow Reed ''Hollow Reed'' is a 1996 drama film directed by Angela Pope. The plot follows a divorced gay man who begins to suspect that his son is being physically abused by his ex-wife's new boyfriend. The story takes place in Bath, Somerset. Plot Olive ...

''.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pope, Angela 1945 births Living people Alumni of the University of Sussex People from Walton-on-Thames British film directors British television directors British women screenwriters British women film directors British women television directors