Francis George "Franc" Roddam (born 29 April 1946) is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 film director, businessman, screenwriter, television producer and publisher. He is married to photographer, Leila Ansari, and has six children from previous marriages. He currently lives in London.

Career

Roddam's films include "Quadrophenia", "K2", "Aria", "Lords of Discipline" and "War Party". He created the worldwide TV phenomenon, "Masterchef", which is shown in 150 countries worldwide, and there are 20 locally-produced versions. He also produced formats for "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet", "Making Out", and "Harry", all of which were highly successful TV dramas. He directed the award-winning TV drama "Dummy", which won the prestigious Prix Italia Drama Prize. He directed the Grammy-nominated/Golden Globe nominated US mini-series Moby Dick

Moby Dick (1998 miniseries)

Moby Dick is a television miniseries based on Herman Melville's 1851 novel of the same name, filmed in Australia in 1997 and first released in the United States in 1998.-Cast and crew:...

 and Cleopatra. He won awards for his BBC documentaries, "Mini" and "The Family". He is the founder and Chairman of Ziji Publishing, whose many titles include The Last Templar which sold over 5 million copies worldwide. He is a sponsor and former Governor of the London Film School

London Film School

The London Film School is a private film school in London and is situated in a converted brewery in Covent Garden, London, close to a hub of the UK film industry based in Soho. The LFS was founded in 1956 by Bob Dunbar as The London School of Film Technique...

 and is an active member of the Greenworld Campaign.

Films

• Quadrophenia (film)
  Quadrophenia (film)
  Quadrophenia is a 1979 British film, loosely based around the 1973 rock opera of the same name by The Who. The film stars Phil Daniels as a Mod named Jimmy. It was directed by Franc Roddam in his feature directing debut...
  
   — Director/Co-Writer
• Lords of Discipline — Director
• The Bride (film)
  The Bride (film)
  The Bride is an adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, released in 1985 and directed by Franc Roddam. The film stars Sting as Baron Charles Frankenstein and Jennifer Beals as Eva, a woman he creates in the same fashion as his infamous monster....
  
   — Director
• Aria (film) — Director (multiple directors)
• War Party (film)
  War Party (film)
  War Party is a 1988 film starring Billy Wirth and Kevin Dillon. The film, set in present day Montana, explores the tension and mistrust that can characterize interactions between Native American and White American cultures....
  
   — Director
• K2 (film)
  K2 (film)
  K2 is a 1991 motion picture loosely based on the story of two friends' ascent of the second-highest mountain on Earth, K2. The story is based on a play written and presented as a senior-thesis at Stanford University. These roles were played by Michael Biehn and Matt Craven...
  
  — Director

Television

• MasterChef — Format Creator, Executive Producer
• Auf Wiedersehen, Pet — Format Creator, Executive Producer
• Canterbury Tales — Format Creator, Executive Producer
• Cleopatra — Director (2 x 90mins)
• Moby Dick
  Moby Dick (1998 miniseries)
  Moby Dick is a television miniseries based on Herman Melville's 1851 novel of the same name, filmed in Australia in 1997 and first released in the United States in 1998.-Cast and crew:...
  
   — Director (2 x 90mins)
• Crow Road — Executive Producer
• An Ungentlemanly Act
  An Ungentlemanly Act
  An Ungentlemanly Act is a 1992 BBC television film about the first days of the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982.-Production:The film was written and directed by Stuart Urban, and commissioned to mark the tenth anniversary of the Falklands War...
  
   — Executive Producer
• Harry
  Harry (TV series)
  Harry is a television drama series that was made by Union Pictures for the BBC, and shown on BBC One between 1993 and 1995. The programme concerned a journalist called Harry Salter who ran a news agency in the town of Darlington in England.- Cast :* Harry Salter - Michael Elphick* Jonathan - Tom...
  
   — Format Creator, Executive Producer
• Making Out — Format Creator
• Dummy — Director/Producer
• The Family — Co-Director
• Mini — Director
• The Fight — Director

Commercials
Director on numerous accounts, including:

• Shell
• The Observer
• Campbell Soups
• BP
• COI – Aids Campaign

In development

• Waltzing Matilda — Producer/Director/Co-Writer
• Let’s Face It — Producer/Director/Co-Writer
• IGGY — Format Creator/Co-Writer
• Win-Win — Format Creator/Co-Producer
• 2 in a Million — Format Creator/Producer

External links

• Ziji Publishing - Official website