Roland Joffé

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1945-11-17 (80 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Roland Joffé

Biography

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 credits including 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. In the late 1980s, he co-fo...

Production

1984

1995

1995

1986

The Mission

as Director

2000

Vatel

as Producer

2000

Vatel

as Director

1989

1993

1989

2021

Blood on the Crown

as Executive Producer

2007

Captivity

as Director

2011

You and I

as Director

2011

There Be Dragons

as Director

2011

There Be Dragons

as Screenplay

1992

City of Joy

as Director

1999

Goodbye Lover

as Director

2015

The Lovers

as Director

1978

The Spongers

as Director

1977

2015

The Lovers

as Writer

2018

The Forgiven

as Director

-

November 1963

as Director

2018

The Forgiven

as Writer

1981

United Kingdom

as Director

2019

A Lover Scorned

as Director

1992

City of Joy

as Producer

2018

The Forgiven

as Producer

2011

There Be Dragons

as Producer

1979

No Mama No

as Director

-

L'Inverno

as Director

1991

© All Rights Reserved 2025