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Name: Lindsay Anderson  
   
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Date of Birth: 17th April 1923
   
Place of Birth: Bangalore, India (now Bangalore, Karnataka, India)
   
Profession: Director
 
 
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Lindsay Gordon Anderson (April 17, 1923 - August 30, 1994), English film and documentary director. Born in Bangalore, India, the son of a British Army officer. Educated at Cheltenham College and Oxford.

Career

Anderson's earliest films were non-fiction documentary shorts; his film Thursday's Child won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short in 1954. He was part of the British Free cinema movement during the 1950s along with Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson. Anderson is best remembered internationally for his "Mick Travis" trilogy of feature films, all of which star Malcolm McDowell as Travis: If...., O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital.

An important British theatre director, he was long associated with the Royal Court Theatre, directing premier productions of plays by David Storey, among others.

Anderson was also a prominent film critic, associated with Sequence magazine (1947-52) and later Sight and Sound. Anderson developed an acquaintance with John Ford, which led to him writing one of the standard books on that director.

Filmography

  • This Sporting Life (1963)
  • The Singing Lesson (1967)
  • If.... (1968)
  • O Lucky Man! (1972)
  • In Celebration (1974)
  • Red White and Zero (1979)
  • Britannia Hospital (1982)
  • The Whales of August (1987)

Documentary and TV

  • Meet the Pioneers (1948)
  • Idlers that Work (1949)
  • Three Installations (1951)
  • Wakefield Express (1952)
  • Thursday's Child (1953)
  • O Dreamland (1953)
  • Truck Conveyor (1954)
  • 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 (1955)
  • Every Day Except Christmas (1957)
  • March to Aldermaston (1959)
  • The Old Crowd (1979)
  • Glory! Glory! (1989)

Bibliography

  • About John Ford (1983) ISBN 0859650146
  • The Diaries of Lindsay Anderson ed. Paul Sutton (2004) ISBN 0413773973
  • Never Apologise: The Collected Writings of Lindsay Anderson (2004) ISBN 085965317X
  • SEE ALSO: Lindsay Anderson Bibliography (via UC Berkeley)

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