Lindsay Anderson
British feature-film, theatre and documentary director and film critic (1923-1994)
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- Born
- 1923-04-17
- Died
- 1994-08-30
- Works
- 1038
Top works
- Cruise in an Opium Clipper
- Happy New Year, Beverly!
- Special Date
- Saying Goodbye
- One Special Evening
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Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was an English director and film critic, best known for his association with the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave. He is most widely remembered for his 1968 film if...., which won the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lindsay Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of…
Known for
- Words in Progress2004
- Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man? — Self (Archival)2004
- Lucky Man — Himself1995
- American Cinema — Self1994
- D.W. Griffith: Father of Film — Narrator1993
- Talking with Ozu — Self
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Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was an English filmmaker, theatre director, critic, and actor. He was considered a leading light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave, and a principal exponent of kitchen sink realism on both the stage and screen.
As a film director, he is best known for his "Mick Travis Trilogy" of films starring Malcolm McDowell, the first of which, if.... (1968), won the Palme d'Or at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival and earned Anderson a BAFTA nomination for Best Direction. He was also a prominent stage director, both at the Royal Court Theatre and at the West End.
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1923 births1994 deaths20th-century English writersAlumni of Wadham College, OxfordBritish Army personnel of World War IIBritish people in British IndiaDirectors of Palme d'Or winnersEnglish experimental filmmakersEnglish film criticsEnglish film directorsEnglish film producersEnglish male screenwriters