Educating Rita (film) Educating Rita (film) Educating Rita is a British 1983 drama/comedy film directed by Lewis Gilbert with a screenplay by Willy Russell based on his 1980 stage play. The film stars Michael Caine, Julie Walters, and Maureen Lipman. It won multiple major awards for best actor and best actress and was nominated for three Academy Awards. Caine and Walters both won BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for best actor and actress. The British Film Institute ranked "Educating Rita" the 84th greatest British film of the 20th century. A Liverpudlian working-class young hairdresser Rita (Julie Walters) wants to better herself by studying
Willy Linthout with Luc Cromheecke the series "Roboboy". In 2007, after the suicide of his son, he wrote and drew the graphic novel "Jaren van de Olifant" ("Years of the Elephant"), which was nominated for a number of international awards and won the Bronzen Adhemar, the most important Flemish comics award. Willy Linthout Willy Linthout (born 1 May 1953) is a Belgian comics author, best known for the "Urbanus" comics and his graphic novel "Years of the Elephant". Willy Linthout is born in Eksaarde near Lokeren, Belgium in 1953. He was a comics collector when he met Flemish comedian Urbanus. They decided