Tony Richardson
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| Birth name | Cecil Antonio Richardson | |||||||||
| Born | June 5 1928 Shipley, Yorkshire, England | |||||||||
| Died | November 14 1991 (aged 63) Los Angeles, California | |||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Vanessa Redgrave (1962-1967) | |||||||||
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Tony Richardson (June 5, 1928 – November 14, 1991) was an English theatre and Academy Award-winning film director and producer.
Richardson was born Cecil Antonio Richardson in Shipley, Yorkshire in 1928, the son of Elsie Evans (Campion) and Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist.[1] He attended Ashville College, Harrogate.
Representative of the British "New Wave" of directors, he developed the ideas that led to the formation of the English Stage Company, along with his close friend George Goetschius and George Devine. As a young director, Richardson directed plays such as Pericles at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1958. Richardson later co-founded Woodfall Films with the dramatist John Osborne. Richardson and Osborne eventually fell out[2] during production of the film Charge of the Light Brigade.
In 1964 Richardson received two Academy Awards (Best Director and Best Picture) for Tom Jones (1963).
He was married to the actress Vanessa Redgrave between 1962 and 1967 (he left her for actress Jeanne Moreau), and had two daughters, Natasha Richardson (born 1963) and Joely Richardson (born 1965), both of whom are actresses.
Richardson was bisexual (which he had carefully hidden for as long as possible), and died of complications from AIDS at 63 in 1991.
[edit] Filmography
- Look Back in Anger (1958)
- The Entertainer (1960)
- Sanctuary (1961)
- A Taste of Honey (1961)
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (aka Rebel with a Cause) (1962)
- Tom Jones (1963)
- The Loved One (1965)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
- Hamlet (1969)
- Laughter in the Dark (1969)
- Ned Kelly (1970)
- The Border (1982)
- The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
- Blue Sky (1994)
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/90/Tony-Richardson.html
- ^ John Osborne: A Patriot for Us by John Heilpern, Chatto & Windus, 2006 ISBN 978-0-70116-780-7, pp.346-51. The basic issue was Osborne's unwillingness to go through the rewrite process, more arduous in film than it is in the theatre.
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| Preceded by David Lean for Lawrence of Arabia | Academy Award for Best Director 1963 for Tom Jones | Succeeded by George Cukor for My Fair Lady |
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