Derek Jarman

Director 14 / Writer 9 / Actor 3 · 1974 – 2011 · 🎬 26

Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman was an English artist, film maker, stage designer, writer, gardener, and gay rights activist, regarded as one of the most influential figures associated with the new queer cinema. Trained originally as a painter, he moved into stage and production design in the late 1960s, including work on Ken Russell's controversial historical 1971 film The Devils, before turning to filmmaking as a director.

All · 26 🎬 Movies · 26

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Highlights

The British Guide to Showing Off

2011

Sebastiane

2008

Sebastiane

2008

Frequent Collaborators

Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton

16 shared

Nigel Terry

Nigel Terry

9 shared

Michael Gough

Michael Gough

6 shared

Jack Birkett

5 shared

Toyah Willcox

Toyah Willcox

4 shared

Jean-Luc Godard

4 shared

All decades 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

🎬 Movies

The British Guide to Showing Off

actor

2011

Sebastiane

writer

2008

Sebastiane

director

2008

Glitterbug

director

1996

Blue

actor

1994

Blue

director

1994

Blue

writer

1994

Wittgenstein

director

1994

Edward II

writer

1992

Edward II

director

1992

The Tempest

writer

1991

The Tempest

director

1991

The Garden

writer

1990

The Garden

director

1990

War Requiem

director

1989

Aria

writer

1987

Aria

director

1987

Caravaggio

Caravaggio

writer

1987

Caravaggio

Caravaggio

director

1987

Caravaggio

Caravaggio

actor

1987

The Last of England

writer

1987

The Last of England

director

1987

The Angelic Conversation

director

1985

Jubilee

director

1981

Jubilee

writer

1981

In the Shadow of the Sun

director

1974

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