---
name: "Iain Softley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/iain-softley"
fi1m_id: "iain-softley"
imdb_id: "nm0812200"
tmdb_id: 1978
wikidata_id: "Q387412"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "30 November 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T02:29:14.275706+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Iain Softley

## Identity

Iain Softley

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/iain-softley
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** iain-softley
- **IMDb ID:** nm0812200
- **TMDB ID:** 1978
- **Wikidata ID:** Q387412
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Softley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q387412, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812200/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1978

Director. Born 30 November 1956 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 30 November 1956, London, England, UK
- **Also known as:** Iain Declan Softley
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Softley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q387412, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812200/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1978

## Biography

Iain Declan Softley is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. He was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing, and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he directed theatrical productions. He worked for Granada Television and the BBC in the 1980s before directing music videos and moving into feature films.

Softley's debut feature *Backbeat* (1994), which he wrote and directed, opened the Sundance Film Festival and received a BAFTA nomination for Best British Film. Subsequent films include *Hackers* (1995), *The Wings of the Dove* (1997), *K-PAX* (2001), *The Skeleton Key* (2005) and *Inkheart* (2008). He has also directed the television adaptation *The Outcast* (2015) and the short film *The Shepherd* (2023).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *K-PAX* (2001), Fi1m 56, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/k-pax.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Shepherd* (2023), Director, Writer
- *Curve* (2015), Director
- *The Keyboard Cowboys: A Look Back at Hackers* (2015), Actor
- *The Outcast* (2015), series, Director
- *Trap for Cinderella* (2013), Screenplay, Director
- *Playhouse Presents* (2012), series, Director
- *Inkheart* (2008), Director
- *The Skeleton Key* (2005), Director, Producer
- *K-PAX* (2001), Director — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/k-pax.md)
- *Toni Braxton: From Toni with Love... The Video Collection* (2001), Director
- *The Wings of the Dove* (1997), Director
- *Hackers* (1995), Director, Executive Producer
- *Backbeat* (1994), Screenplay, Director
- *Come and Get Me*, Executive Producer

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