Stephen Walker (filmmaker)

Stephen Walker is a British filmmaker and director primarily known in the UK for his TV documentaries. He was educated at Oxford and Harvard universities. He has directed around 30 films,^[1] and has twice been voted in the top 10 directors in the UK by Broadcast Magazine.^[2] Among many awards, he has won a BAFTA, been nominated for three more, won an Emmy and two Rose d'Ors, Europe's most prestigious television prize. His film "Young@Heart" won the Los Angeles Audience Award in 2007 and was released by Fox Searchlight in 250 theatres in the US in 2008. It is the highest grossing British-made documentary to be released in the United States. His production company is called Walker George Films.

Filmography

• Prisoners in Time (1995)
• Waiting for Harvey (1999)
• Hardcore (2001)
• Faking It: Punk Rocker to Orchestra Conductor (2002)^[3]
• Hiroshima – A Day That Shook The World (2004) (drama-documentary)
• Young@Heart (2007)
• Silver Surfers (2007)
• "A Boy Called Alex" (2008)
• George Melly’s Last Stand (2008)
• Operation Mincemeat (2010)
• Propellerheads (2011)
• DOUBLE AGENT: The Eddie Chapman Story (2011)

Writing

Stephen Walker has also written two books, Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima (2005), a New York Times Bestseller which won the 2006 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction and King of Cannes, the story of four obsessed filmmakers who crash the Cannes Film Festival to sell their movies. (1999).

Personal life

Stephen Walker's former partner is the television producer and director Sally George. They separated in 2011 but still run their company Walker George Films together. In his spare time he flies a small plane for recreation.

References

External links

• Stephen Walker's production company
• Waiting for Harvey at the Internet Movie Database