Anthony Page

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

Life and work

In India, born 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 included in the drama school Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre of Sanford Meisner. As a production assistant, he was obliged theater at the British Royal Court. Six years later, he became the artistic director of the Royal Court After extensive theater productions and studies in London, he directed in 1965 with Inadmissible Evidence his first Broadway production. Three years later he had with the film version of the play made ​​its debut as a film director.

His other films included I Never Promised You A Rose Garden and The Lady Vanishes, a remake of Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. Many of his works were designed on the size of a TV 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. So he turned the two Bill movies with Mickey Rooney, and even FDR: The Last Year ( 1980), The Patricia Neal Story ( 1981) and Grace Kelly ( 1983).

Filmography (selection)

Broadway

Awards