Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Gordon Anderson ( born April 17, 1923 in Bangalore, now Bengaluru, India, † August 30, 1994 in Angoulême, Charente, France) was a British theater, feature and documentary film director.

Anderson, who was born the son of a British officer in India, visited the Cheltenham College and the University of Oxford.

Career

His first films were documentaries short films. Anderson's film Thursday 's Children 1954 was awarded an Oscar for best documentary short. Anderson participated in the 1950 Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson with the movement of the British Free Cinema. He gained through the " Mick Travis " trilogy with Malcolm McDowell as Travis in If ..., O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital international reputation. For If ... he won the 1969 grand prize ( Grand Prix) at the Cannes Film Festival. From the Free Cinema movement, the British New Wave emerged.

As a major British theater director he was a long time the Royal Court Theatre, and produced pieces, among others by David Storey.

Anderson was also a respected film critic of the magazine Sequence ( 1947-52 ), later Sight & Sound. He was closely associated with John Ford

Filmography (selection)

Documentaries and television films

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.