Christopher Miles was born in London in 1939, studied filmmaking in Paris, directing his first professional film in 1962. He went on to make some 20 films, working in both cinema and TV. His best-known work is Priest of Love (1981), a feature film on the life of DH Lawrence, starring Ian McKellen as Lawrence. A later project, Love in the Ancient World (1997) was both a TV series and a book. Miles died in 2023.