Lindsay Anderson

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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)

Documentary and television films

As an actor

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

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personal data
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