Anthony Page

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Anthony Page (born September 21, 1935 , Bangalore , Karnataka , India ) is a British stage and film director .

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Born in India to British parents, Anthony Page attended the University of Oxford , where he gained his first experience in acting and directing student productions. Page went to New York to be accepted into the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater by Sanford Meisner . He was hired as a production assistant at London's Royal Court Theater . Six years later he took over the artistic direction of the Royal Court. After extensive theater productions and studies in London , he directed Inadmissible Evidence, his first Broadway production in 1965 . Three years later he made his debut as a film director with the film adaptation of the play.

His other films included I Never Promised You A Rose Garden and The Deadly Message , a remake of Hitchcock's A Lady Vanishes . Much of his work was designed to be the size of a television screen, including his impressionistic "Live-On-Tape" productions Pueblo (1973) and The Missiles of October (1974).

Page also worked in the field of television biographies. He made the two Bill films with Mickey Rooney , and also FDR: The Last Year (1980), The Patricia Neal Story (1981) and Grace Kelly (1983).

Filmography (selection)

Broadway

Awards

  • 1974: Emmy nomination for Pueblo
  • 1975: Emmy nomination for The Missiles of October
  • 1982: DGA Award nomination for The Patricia Neal Story
  • 1995: BAFTA TV Award nomination for Middlemarch
  • 1997: Tony Award for A Doll's House

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personal data
SURNAME Page, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British stage and film director
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bangalore , Karnataka , India