Biography andrew birkin biography

English screenwriter and director (born 1945)

Andrew Timothy Birkin (born 9 December 1945) is an English screenwriter and director.

Early life and education

Birkin is the only son of Lieutenant-Commander David Leslie Birkin (grandson of the lace manufacturer and railway director Sir Thomas Birkin, 1st Baronet) and his wife, actress Judy Campbell.

One of his sisters was actress and singer Jane Birkin.^[1] Birkin was educated at Elstree School and Harrow School.

Biography andrew birkin biography

At the former he was remembered by a teacher as being "one of the naughtiest boys ever to have passed through Elstree"^[2] and his record at Harrow was no better.

Career

He left school at the age of 17 to work as a mail boy at 20th Century Fox's London office, graduating to Elstree Studios as a production runner in 1963 on Man in the Middle and The Third Secret.

After hitch-hiking and freight-jumping across America in 1964, he returned to England in 1965 and began work as a r