Lindsay Anderson
Lindsay Gordon Anderson (born April 17, 1923 in Bangalore, now Bengaluru , India , † August 30, 1994 in Angoulême , Charente department , France ) was a British theater , feature and documentary director and film critic .
Career
Lindsay Anderson, who was born in India to a British officer , attended Cheltenham College and the University of Oxford .
His first films were documentary shorts. Anderson's film Thursday's Children won an Oscar for Best Short Documentary Film in 1954 . Anderson participated in the 1950s with Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson in the British Free Cinema movement , which later became the British New Wave . He gained international renown through the "Mick Travis" trilogy with Malcolm McDowell in the leading role of Travis. For If… , the first film in the trilogy, he won the main prize (Grand Prix) at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969 . The trilogy was made with O Lucky Man! (1973) and Britannia Hospital (1982) continued. His last feature film was 1987 Wale in August with the movie legends Bette Davis and Lillian Gish .
As an important British theater director, he was a long time member of the Royal Court Theater and produced many plays, including by David Storey .
Anderson was also a respected film critic for Sequence magazine (1947-52), later Sight & Sound . He was particularly interested in director John Ford , whom he met several times from 1950 and about whom he published the biography About John Ford in 1983 .
Filmography (selection)
- 1963: Alluring Laurel (This Sporting Life)
- 1967: The Singing Lesson
- 1968: If ... (if ....)
- 1973: The Successful (O Lucky Man!)
- 1975: In Celebration
- 1979: Red White and Zero
- 1982: Britannia Hospital
- 1987: Whales in August (The Whales of August)
Documentary and television films
- 1948: Meet the Pioneers
- 1949: Idlers that Work
- 1952: Three Installations
- 1952: Wakefield Express
- 1952: Trunk Conveyor
- 1953: O Dreamland
- 1954: Thursday's Children
- 1955: Foot and Mouth
- 1955: A Hundred Thousand Children
- 1955: The Children Upstairs
- 1955: Green and Pleasant Land
- 1955: Henry
- 1955: £ 20 a ton
- 1955: Energy First
- 1957: Every Day Except Christmas
- 1959: March to Aldermaston
- 1979: The Old Crowd
- 1989: Glory! Glory!
As an actor
- 1981: The Victory's Hour (Chariots of Fire)
bibliography
- About John Ford (1983), ISBN 0859650146
- The Diaries of Lindsay Anderson (2004), ed. Paul Sutton, ISBN 0413773973
- Lindsay Anderson, Paul Ryan: Never Apologise: The Collected Writings of Lindsay Anderson (2004), Plexus Publishing Ltd., ISBN 085965317X
Web links
- Lindsay Anderson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lindsay Anderson on Screenonline (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Anderson, Lindsay |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Anderson, Lindsay Gordon (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British director |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1923 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bangalore |
DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1994 |
Place of death | Angoulême |