Andrew Birkin
| Andrew Birkin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Andrew Timothy Birkin 9 December 1945 Chelsea, London, U.K. |
| Occupation | Director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1972 – present |
| Children | 5 |
| Parent(s) | David Birkin Judy Campbell |
| Relatives |
Jane Birkin (sister) |
Andrew Timothy Birkin (born 9 December 1945) is an English screenwriter, director and occasional actor. He was born the only son of Lieutenant-Commander David Birkin and his wife, actress Judy Campbell. One of his sisters is the actress and singer Jane Birkin.
Birkin left Harrow 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. He began work as a runner on Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1965, but soon became Kubrick's location scout. By the summer of 1966, Kubrick had promoted Birkin to Assistant Director on Special Effects; Birkin later proposed the shooting and colour transposition of aerial footage for the 'Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite' sequence, some of which he filmed from a helicopter over Scotland. In 1967 Birkin supervised the shooting of 'The Dawn of Man' front projection plates in the Namib Desert. In 1968, Kubrick again engaged Birkin as his assistant director and location scout on his unmade epic of Napoleon.
After working as First Assistant Director to the Beatles on Magical Mystery Tour in 1967, Birkin began writing scripts for producer David Puttnam, including The Pied Piper (1971) for director Jacques Demy,Slade In Flame (1974) for the rock band Slade (which won the Vision Award at the 2007 MOJO Awards), and an unmade adaptation of Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich for Puttnam and Paramount, which involved a year's collaboration and taped interviews with Speer in 1972.
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